The Evaluation of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities: Lessons from the Italian Experience

Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards an Epistemic Theory of Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities; Andrea Bonaccorsi.- Part I. Research Quality Criteria in SSH.- Chapter 2. Peer Review in Social Sciences and Humanities: Addressing the Interpretation of Quality Criteria; Andrea Bonaccorsi.- Chapter 3. Guidelines for Peer Review: A Survey of International Practices; Andrea Capaccioni and Gianna Spina.- Chapter 4. Individual and Department Level Indicators of Scientific Productivity: A Multisource Analysis; Chiara Faggiolani.- Chapter 5. Research Quality Criteria: The Case of Legal Studies; Sebastiano Faro, Ginevra Peruginelli.- Part II. The Role of Books and Monographs in Social Siences Research and Their Evaluation.- Chapter 6. Quality Evaluation of Online Library Catalogs, of Advanced Discovery Tools and of Liked Data Technologies; Maria Teresa Biagetti, Antonella Iacono, Antonella Trombone.- Chapter 7. Research Quality Criteria in the Evaluation of Books; Carla Basili, Luca Lanzillo.- Chapter 8. The Evolving Role of Books in Research Practices of Humanities; Tiziana Lippiello, Ioana Galleron, Geoffrey Williams.- Chapter 9. Research Quality Criteria in the Evaluation of Legal Research Monographs; Sebastiano Faro and Ginevra Peruginelli.- Part III. Journal Classification and Rating.- Chapter 10. Validity and Robustness of Journal Rating; Andrea Bonaccorsi, Tindaro Cicero, Antonio Ferrara and Marco Malgarini.- Chapter 11. Strategies for Publication in International Journals in SSH; Domenica Stella Iezzi.- Chapter 12. The Role of Scientific Societies of Journal Rating: the Case of Humanities; Andrea Bonaccorsi and Antonio Ferrara.- Part IV. Exploring New Indicators for the Multilevel Assessment of Research.- Chapter 13. Exploring the Potential of Indicators Based on Google Scholar; Alfio Ferrara and Silvia Salini.- Chapter 14. Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Google Scholars Indicators: the Case of Social Sciences in Italy; Ferruccio Biolcati-Rinaldi and Silvia Salini.- Chapter 15. Are Digital Library Catalgs a Reliable Source in Research Assessment?; Maria Teresa Biagetti, Antonella Iacono and Antonella Trombone.- Chapter 16. Do Scholar in Social Sciences and Humanities Contribute to the Third Mission of Universities?: Evidence from an Assessment Exercise; Brigida Blasi, Sandra Romagnosi and Andrea Bonaccorsi.- Chapter 17. The Impact of Research in SSH; Luca Lanzillo.- Part V. What Do We Learn from the Italian Experience?.- Chapter 18. The International Debate on the Evaluation of SSH and the Italian Experience; Alesia Zuccalà.