Abstracts - The Research Rating of the German Council of Science and Humanities : Revisiting Reviewers’ Scores of Sociological Research Units

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Diekmann, Andreas
Näf, Matthias
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Soziale Welt ; 66 (2015), 2. - pp. 252. - ISSN 0038-6073
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Evaluations of scientific productivity are part of the common daily business in all scientific disciplines – including sociology. An extensive, but contested project to measure research quality in German sociology was the Forschungsrating of the Wissenschaftsrat (WR) that was completed in 2008. A group of 16 renowned sociologists evaluated about 250 research units using five categories from “excellent” to “not satisfactory”. The evaluation of research was based on over 10,000 publications in a compiled database and about 700 submitted exemplary pieces of research (journal articles, contributions to edited volumes, editions of volumes, monographs). How can this ambitioned project retrospectively be assessed? How is the return compared to the investment? The article aims at a reconstruction of the evaluation on the level of research units. Results prove that the judgment of research quality is overwhelmingly influenced by output measures such as the number of publications in peer review journals. To a large extent the judgments can be predicted by few quantitative indicators. Obviously, the experts also took the size of units into account.
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ISO 690AUSPURG, Katrin, Andreas DIEKMANN, Thomas HINZ, Matthias NÄF, 2015. Abstracts - The Research Rating of the German Council of Science and Humanities : Revisiting Reviewers’ Scores of Sociological Research Units. In: Soziale Welt. 66(2), pp. 252. ISSN 0038-6073. Available under: doi: 10.5771/0038-6073-2015-2-251
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  title={Abstracts - The Research Rating of the German Council of Science and Humanities : Revisiting Reviewers’ Scores of Sociological Research Units},
  number={2},
  volume={66},
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  journal={Soziale Welt},
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