The theme of the RESSH 2024 Conference is “Open Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Evaluation, Infrastructure and Practices” with the goal of stimulating discussions about the tension between open research and research evaluation criteria, the best practices of promoting open research culture, and the societal impacts of open research. Open Research is understood broadly, from reflecting the implementation of FAIR principles in SSH research and research evaluation in general to embracing research integrity as well as the social and economic sustainability of SSH research and practices of research evaluation.
Like in the first three RESSH conferences, we also welcome abstracts regarding any topic relevant to research evaluation in the SSH. SSH relevance can mean addressing SSH-specific topics or issues or starting from SSH research evaluation and upscaling it to other disciplines or interdisciplinary research. Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
Specificities of SSH research
and SSH research evaluation
- Notions and perceptions of research quality
- Diversity
- Ethics of research evaluation
- Relation between knowledge production and assessment
- The international dimension in SSH research
- SSH and local knowledge
- Aspects of SSH research evaluation
Open Research
- Open access and research evaluation
- Open Research Data in the SSH
- Open data vs. data protection and privacy
- Replication in the SSH
- Preregistration in the SSH
- Open peer review
- Relevance of Open Research
Societal relevance
- Knowledge transfer
- Internationalisation
- Theorising societal impact
- Peer review of societal aspects of research
- Effects of evaluation and performance-based funding on SSH research and researchers
- Approaches to SSH research evaluation
Scholarly books and
their evaluation context
- Data sources for SSH evaluation
- Multilingualism in scholarly publication
- Responsible use of metrics
- Alternative metrics
In each case, authors are expected to explicitly link the topic to evaluation of SSH research. Case studies of specific fields are welcome.
RESSH 2024 Conference 