In this chapter, we propose evaluation and decision-making as activities which, properly
reconstructed from conventional norms, can be leveraged to change who and what receives …

The dramatic salience of university rankings is usually attributed to a number of macro-level
trends, such as neoliberal ideology, the spread of audit culture, and globalization in the …

Curricula vitae (CVs) are a crucial device for the evaluation of academic personae and
biographies. They play a key role in the competitive assessments that underpin the …

Academic peer review is seriously undertheorized because peer review studies focus on
discovering and confirming phenomena, such as biases, and are much less concerned with …

Over the past few decades, peer review has become an object of great professional and
managerial interest (Oancea, 2019) and, increasingly, academic scrutiny (Bornmann, 2011; …

Google Scholar has become an important player in the scholarly economy. Whereas typical
academic publishers sell bibliometrics, analytics and ranking products, Alphabet, through …

Little is known whether peer reviewers use the same evaluation criteria and how they
integrate the criteria into their overall judgment. This study therefore proposed two …

This study examines a basic assumption of peer review, namely, the idea that there is a
consensus on evaluation criteria among peers, which is a necessary condition for the …

In den letzten Jahren ist im deutschen Sprachraum, abweichend von der internationalen
Nomenklatur, vermehrt von» Wissenschafts-und Hochschulforschung «die Rede. Angezeigt …

It is well known that research quality notions vary across research fields. Despite this,
humanities quality notions are often portrayed as deviant or particularly hard to grasp. To …