Some Characteristics of Research Evaluations for Humanity and Social Science Researchers

本文企圖從人文社會科學學科屬性的不同、出版品型態和內容的差異，及學者自我期許的差異，探討人文社會科學學者學術評鑑的特性。學術評鑑旨在了解研究人員的研究成果，由於研究產出是研究成果的具體標的物，因此如何藉由研究人員的研究產出顯示其研究水平，其前提必須將研究人員的各種研究產出皆涵括在評鑑範圍內。因為人文社會學者的研究產出具有出版種類多元、圖書與期刊均是重要的出版品、圖書引用比率高、研究議題具本土性及引用較舊的文獻資料等特性，因此進行學術評鑑時應注意不能僅就西文期刊文章數及其被引用次數進行評鑑，同時必須考慮較長時間的出版品數量和品質。This article attempts to investigate the characteristics of research evaluations for social science and humanity researchers. A successful research evaluation should include all the publication media used by their researchers. In social science and humanity studies, articles and books are the two most commonly used scientific publication media, but several other publication media play an important role in some disciplines too. In additions, books always receive high citation rate. Also, social science and humanity researches deal with local and regional problems more often and cite earlier articles than are in sciences. Thus, any evaluation that covered only articles or books would probably be incomplete to varying degrees. A window of longer years for evaluation would be more appropriate for social science and humanity researchers