Host institution: FORS, located at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

Description of the topic: This STSM will investigate research and dissemination patterns of SSH institutes and/or researchers applying a mixed methods approach. The focus of the STSM will lie in the analysis of the (full) output of SSH institutes using qualitative as well as quantitative descriptions and classifications, not only regarding output type or dissemination channel but also regarding type of text and references used within these texts. Furthermore, interviews with researchers will shed light on knowledge production and dissemination strategies.

Objectives: This STSM aims to advance the understanding of knowledge production and dissemination in the SSH (Task 1 of WG1). This is a basic task which is important for the contextualization of each deliverable in WG1 (and thus writing scientific papers): the “overview of national evaluation systems” (GP2) can be set in relation to the results of this STSM; the “overview of peer review practices” (GP3) needs information on the importance of peer reviewed outputs/references; it will finally be a crucial input also for the deliverable “Recommendations for better adapted criteria and indicators” (GP3).

Special criteria for this STSM: the applicant has knowledge of the organisation of SSH research in his or her country and will thus be able to identify one or more SSH institutes he or she will get access to publication lists and interviewees in his or her country.

Results: The proposed STSM will contribute to the Training School and the recommendations for better adapted criteria and indicators for SSH research and will result in co-authored publications.

Practical details:

Working group: WG1 (conceptual frameworks for SSH research evaluation)

Duration and timing: between 2 weeks and 1 month

Location: FORS, Géopolis, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Contact: Michael Ochsner (ochsner@evalhum.eu; michael.ochsner@fors.unil.ch)

Host institution: Universitat Politècnica de València, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV)

Topic: In this STSM we intend to delve into the diversity of potential users, the types of uses they can make of HSS knowledge as well as the territorial scope of impacts.

Objectives: In line with the objectives of WP2 and using some of the cases collected, the grantee will:

– Examine the various types of SSH research impacts and stakeholders, especially in the cultural sphere;

– Analyse the types of knowledge use (conceptual/symbolic, instrumental);

– Identify the processes through which they emerge, and their territorial scope (local, national, international).

The work will be carried out in close cooperation with Julia Olmos Peñuela (University of Valencia), Vice Chair of WG2.

Results: One or more publications thematising structural requirements and conditions favouring the flowing of SSH knowledge towards society as large and measures to value better SSH outcomes.

Special criteria for this STSM: preferably the applicant has to be familiar with science, research and innovation (policy) studies or has experience in generating impact.

Practical details:

Working group: WG2 (Societal impact and Relevance of the SSH)

Duration: between 2 weeks and 1 month

Location: Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

Contact: Elena Castro-Martínez (ecastrom@ingenio.upv.es)

Host institution: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Topic: This STSM will confront productivity and a structure of outputs in various SSH disciplines. The focus of the STSM will lie in a cross-country comparison of the SSH publication patterns, especially in terms of publication languages and types (e.g., the share of monographs and non-English publications). The task will encompass the comparative analysis of the SSH output of the grantee’s country database as well as the Polish Scholarly Bibliography.

Objectives:

– To Confront productivity and structure of outputs in various SSH disciplines, using data from existing national information systems or other databases and repositories (identify dissemination profiles, clusters and hybrids);

– To analyse characteristics of divers dissemination channels used in the SSH.

Results: One or more publications as well as establishment of new collaboration(s) (or development of the existing ones) between the Adam Mickiewicz University and the applicant’s organisation.

Special criteria for this STSM: The applicant has access to (or can get access to) and is familiar with the data infrastructure in their own country or region.

Practical details:

Working group: WG3 (databases and uses of data for understanding SSH research)

Duration: between two weeks and two months, preferably two weeks,

Location: Scholarly Communication Research Group – Faculty of Social Sciences, Szamarzewskiego 89c 60-568 Poznań, POLAND

Contact: Emanuel Kulczycki (emek@amu.edu.pl)

Objectives: In the past decade, several calls have been made to work towards a European database of publications in social sciences and humanities (SSH), by integrating local and national databases of SSH research output. Recently, members of WG3 have made the first advances towards this goal by setting up a pilot study in which metadata from different countries are processed and integrated by the Finnish VIRTA system.

The aim of the current STSM is to evaluate and analyse the results of the pilot study. Specifically, one or more of the following topics can be worked on:

– Analysis and evaluation of publication data quality in the VIRTA pilot.

– Bibliometric analysis: A comparison of pilot organizations, for example in terms of co-publishing, publication types, or internationality.

– Development of guidelines for a future expansion of the pilot study.

Results: A paper on multilateral comparisons between countries and/or report outlining steps to be taken for a future expansion of the pilot study.

Special criteria for this STSM: preferably the applicant has access to and is familiar with the data infrastructure in their own country or region.

Practical details:

Working group: WG3 (databases and uses of data for understanding SSH research)

Duration: between 2 weeks and 1 month

Location: CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd, Espoo, Finland

Contact: Hanna-Mari Puuska (hanna-mari.puuska@csc.fi)