Profiles and beyond: constructing consensus on measuring research output in communication sciences Articles uri icon

authors

  • PROBST, CAROLE
  • LEPORI, BENEDETTO
  • FILIPPO, DANIELA ALEJANDRA DE
  • INGENHOFF, DIANA

publication date

  • March 2011

start page

  • 73

end page

  • 88

issue

  • 1

volume

  • 20

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0958-2029

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1471-5449

abstract

  • Measuring research output in fields of social sciences and humanities requires particular attention to the specificities of the field, but also to national and cultural contexts. This paper presents an approach adopted in a project constructing an instrument for measuring research output in communication sciences in Switzerland in collaboration with the scientific community. The concept of profiles, allowing combination of output in different dimensions, is central and proved to be fruitful for the discussion of the instrument and its acceptance in the field. Opportunities, challenges and limitations as well as the way in which they were approached and/or overcome are addressed and further steps to be taken are discussed.