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The paper discusses the criteria adopted from 2016 by the ANVUR – the
Italian Agency for the evaluation of the Universities and of the scientific
research – in order to classify the scientific journals in the SSH fields, in which
bibliometric indicators are not used. In particular, the paper analyzes the
decision to create a class of excellence for journals and to assess the quality of
articles, and of journals, using the VQR scores. Besides, the paper addresses
problems connected to the peer-review, the methodology proposed by ANVUR
in SSH evaluation, and highlights the lack of international guidelines and
ethical criteria in scientific research evaluation