Scholarship at Penn Libraries
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
12-7-2020
Publication Source
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Volume
7
Start Page
165
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00647-z
Abstract
The current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of the HuMetricsHSS Initiative, this essay argues that by aligning values with practices, recognizing the vital processes that enrich the work produced, and grounding our indicators of quality in the degree to which we in the academy live up to the values for which we advocate, a values-enacted approach to research production and evaluation has the capacity to reshape the culture of higher education.
Keywords
research evaluation, academe, metrics, humanities
Recommended Citation
Agate, N., Kennison, R., Long, C. P., Rhody, J., Sacchi, S., Weber, P., & Konkiel, S. (2020). The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7 165-. http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00647-z
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Date Posted: 17 March 2022
This document has been peer reviewed.