SSH & the City. A Network Approach for Tracing the Societal Contribution of the Social Sciences and Humanities for Local Development
Year: 2016
Type: preprint
Abstract: Current evaluation frameworks in research policy were designed to address: 1) life and natural sciences, 2) global research communities, and; 3) scientific impact. This is problematic, as they do not adapt well to SSH scholarship, to local interests, or to consider broader societal impacts. This paper discusses three different evaluation frameworks and proposes a methodology to operationalize them and capture societal interactions between social sciences and humanities (SSH) researchers and their local context. Here we propose a network approach for identifying societal contributions in local contexts. The goal of this approach is not to develop indicators for benchmarking, but to map interactions for strategic assessment. The absolute 'value' or 'weight' of the interactions cannot be captured, but we hope the method can identify the hot spots where they are taking place.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2413955053