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Handbook of Meta-Research
A collective project arising from a dynamic configuration of research concerned with systematic, critical and reflexive inquiry into the normative frames, institutional workings and lived realities of research, this dexterously-crafted Handbook acts as a working guide to the rapidly-evolving interdisciplinary field of meta-research. Bringing together cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, it expertly outlines key domains including the public value, policy and governance of research, knowledge dynamics, and research cultures and careers.
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Critical Acclaim
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A collective project arising from a dynamic configuration of research concerned with systematic, critical and reflexive inquiry into the normative frames, institutional workings and lived realities of research, this dexterously-crafted Handbook acts as a working guide to the rapidly-evolving interdisciplinary field of meta-research.
Bringing together cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, the Handbook expertly outlines key domains including the public value, policy and governance of research, knowledge dynamics, and research cultures and careers. Engaging with diverse philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches, it examines global dynamics in research and explores equality, diversity and inclusion across sectors, career stages and geographical regions. Taking on board multi-layered perspectives from beyond traditional and exclusionary epistemic boundaries, the Handbook offers unique insight into this broad landscape of knowledge.
The Handbook of Meta-Research will appeal to researchers and students in a broad range of fields from the social sciences, arts and humanities and STEM who are concerned with the environments, institutions, policies, practices and evaluations that impact their work, and will be a useful starting point for researchers wanting to initiate meta-research studies to examine their own environments, actions and behaviours. Regulators, users and beneficiaries of research will similarly benefit from this authoritative reference work.
Bringing together cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, the Handbook expertly outlines key domains including the public value, policy and governance of research, knowledge dynamics, and research cultures and careers. Engaging with diverse philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches, it examines global dynamics in research and explores equality, diversity and inclusion across sectors, career stages and geographical regions. Taking on board multi-layered perspectives from beyond traditional and exclusionary epistemic boundaries, the Handbook offers unique insight into this broad landscape of knowledge.
The Handbook of Meta-Research will appeal to researchers and students in a broad range of fields from the social sciences, arts and humanities and STEM who are concerned with the environments, institutions, policies, practices and evaluations that impact their work, and will be a useful starting point for researchers wanting to initiate meta-research studies to examine their own environments, actions and behaviours. Regulators, users and beneficiaries of research will similarly benefit from this authoritative reference work.
Critical Acclaim
‘This is a book populated by many of my favorite colleagues in the field of research on research. Here, they position key facets of our joint scholarly and real-world project of examining, and being part of, contemporary academia. The book is exemplary for doing multidisciplinary meta-research across the globe with professionalism and care. It provokes self-reflexivity because its authors are deeply engaged, rather than disinterested. The Handbook of Meta-Research is a book to cherish!’
– Sarah de Rijcke, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, the Netherlands
‘This Handbook’s thoughtful focus on the “why and how we [focus on the practice of research], who is involved and on what terms” throws (gently!) a gauntlet to advance the study of the research enterprise. Through this comprehensive volume, we are both informed and challenged to consider the breadth, importance and impacts of how our interdisciplinary study of the practice of research matters. This extraordinary set of chapters charges and inspires us to advance the field, and the data on which we base our work. This is absolutely an essential book for newer and more advanced scholars alike.’
– Julia Melkers, Arizona State University in Phoenix, US
– Sarah de Rijcke, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, the Netherlands
‘This Handbook’s thoughtful focus on the “why and how we [focus on the practice of research], who is involved and on what terms” throws (gently!) a gauntlet to advance the study of the research enterprise. Through this comprehensive volume, we are both informed and challenged to consider the breadth, importance and impacts of how our interdisciplinary study of the practice of research matters. This extraordinary set of chapters charges and inspires us to advance the field, and the data on which we base our work. This is absolutely an essential book for newer and more advanced scholars alike.’
– Julia Melkers, Arizona State University in Phoenix, US
Contributors
Contributors include: Euan Adie, Gerlese Åkerlind, Jens Peter Andersen, Julie Bayley, Paul Benneworth, Annette Boaz, Frédérique Bone, Nelius Boshoff, Zoe Hope Bulaitis, Carolina Cañibano, Eliel Cohen, Carmen Corona-Sobrino, Rodrigo Costas, Gemma E. Derrick, Fereshteh Didegah, Kieran Fenby-Hulse, Steven Hill, J. Britt Holbrook, Kelsey Inouye, Eric J. Iversen, Simon Marginson, Lynn McAlpine, David Mills, Irene Monsonís-Payá, Reetta Muhonen, Similo Ngwenya, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Alis Oancea, Kathryn Oliver, Julia Olmos-Peñuela, Paula Otero-Hermida, Andrew Plume, Nicolás Robinson-García, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Beverley Sherbon, Silje Maria Tellmann, James Thomas, Thed van Leeuwen, Richard Watermeyer, Magdalena Wicher, Richard Woolley, Xin Xu
Contents
Contents:
1 Meta-research as discipline, field, or spectrum 1
Gemma E. Derrick, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Alis Oancea and Xin Xu
2 Map of the Handbook of Meta-Research 12
Gemma E. Derrick, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Alis Oancea and Xin Xu
PART I THE PUBLIC VALUE OF RESEARCH
3 Academic values and meta-research 18
J. Britt Holbrook
4 Responsible research and innovation 32
Richard Woolley, Paula Otero-Hermida, Irene Monsonís-Payá and
Magdalena Wicher
5 Value and the public humanities 46
Zoe Hope Bulaitis
6 Hard-to-assess research-impact nexuses in the humanities, arts, and
social sciences 55
Alis Oancea
7 STEMM academics’ understandings of ‘societal value’ in the context of
the UK impact agenda 62
Eliel Cohen
8 Sociology in the impact agenda: is there room for public sociology? 73
Silje Maria Tellmann and Reetta Muhonen
PART II POLICY AND GOVERNANCE OF RESEARCH
9 Changing research policy and practice with evidence: the relationships
between meta-research and its stakeholders 90
Steven Hill
10 Global and national science systems: synergies and tensions 104
Simon Marginson
11 The role of funders in shaping the UK research landscape 116
Frédérique Bone and Beverley Sherbon
12 Mapping the field of evidence production and use 133
Kathryn Oliver, Euan Adie and Annette Boaz
13 Methods development in evidence synthesis: a dialogue between
science and society 146
James Thomas
14 Meta-research and researcher evaluation 159
Andrew Plume
15 Research evaluation in China: policy, practice and prospects 172
Xin Xu
PART III KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS IN META-RESEARCH
16 Changing research publication practices and the rise of research metrics 191
Thed van Leeuwen
17 Diversification of knowledge production actors (including
university-industry partnerships) 204
Paul Benneworth and Julia Olmos-Peñuela
18 Could ORCID play a key role in meta-research? Discussing new
analytical possibilities to study the dynamics of science and scientists 215
Rodrigo Costas, Carmen Corona-Sobrino and Nicolás Robinson-García
19 De-legitimising the social sciences and humanities through peer review 235
Gemma E. Derrick and Tony Ross-Hellauer
20 Research integrity in publishing: decolonial perspectives 251
David Mills and Kelsey Inouye
21 A bibliometric study of bibliometric studies at South African universities 263
Nelius Boshoff and Similo Ngwenya
22 Diabetes prevention or treatment: what is researched and what is
mentioned online? 279
Fereshteh Didegah
PART IV RESEARCH CULTURES AND CAREERS
23 The state-of-the-art of research on science research careers 293
Carolina Cañibano, Richard Woolley, Eric J. Iversen and Carmen Corona-Sobrino
24 Meaning and purpose in academic research: researchers of the 1990s vs 2010s 309
Gerlese S. Åkerlind
25 Post-PhD careers: mobility and ‘research’ in the non-academic arena 322
Lynn McAlpine
26 Hiding in plain sight: research management as a practice and profession
in the scholarly ecosystem 332
Julie Bayley and Kieran Fenby-Hulse
27 Stratification and cumulative advantages in academia: gender and
national differences 341
Jens Peter Andersen
28 The gendered minoritisation of public engagement with research 355
Richard Watermeyer
Index
1 Meta-research as discipline, field, or spectrum 1
Gemma E. Derrick, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Alis Oancea and Xin Xu
2 Map of the Handbook of Meta-Research 12
Gemma E. Derrick, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Alis Oancea and Xin Xu
PART I THE PUBLIC VALUE OF RESEARCH
3 Academic values and meta-research 18
J. Britt Holbrook
4 Responsible research and innovation 32
Richard Woolley, Paula Otero-Hermida, Irene Monsonís-Payá and
Magdalena Wicher
5 Value and the public humanities 46
Zoe Hope Bulaitis
6 Hard-to-assess research-impact nexuses in the humanities, arts, and
social sciences 55
Alis Oancea
7 STEMM academics’ understandings of ‘societal value’ in the context of
the UK impact agenda 62
Eliel Cohen
8 Sociology in the impact agenda: is there room for public sociology? 73
Silje Maria Tellmann and Reetta Muhonen
PART II POLICY AND GOVERNANCE OF RESEARCH
9 Changing research policy and practice with evidence: the relationships
between meta-research and its stakeholders 90
Steven Hill
10 Global and national science systems: synergies and tensions 104
Simon Marginson
11 The role of funders in shaping the UK research landscape 116
Frédérique Bone and Beverley Sherbon
12 Mapping the field of evidence production and use 133
Kathryn Oliver, Euan Adie and Annette Boaz
13 Methods development in evidence synthesis: a dialogue between
science and society 146
James Thomas
14 Meta-research and researcher evaluation 159
Andrew Plume
15 Research evaluation in China: policy, practice and prospects 172
Xin Xu
PART III KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS IN META-RESEARCH
16 Changing research publication practices and the rise of research metrics 191
Thed van Leeuwen
17 Diversification of knowledge production actors (including
university-industry partnerships) 204
Paul Benneworth and Julia Olmos-Peñuela
18 Could ORCID play a key role in meta-research? Discussing new
analytical possibilities to study the dynamics of science and scientists 215
Rodrigo Costas, Carmen Corona-Sobrino and Nicolás Robinson-García
19 De-legitimising the social sciences and humanities through peer review 235
Gemma E. Derrick and Tony Ross-Hellauer
20 Research integrity in publishing: decolonial perspectives 251
David Mills and Kelsey Inouye
21 A bibliometric study of bibliometric studies at South African universities 263
Nelius Boshoff and Similo Ngwenya
22 Diabetes prevention or treatment: what is researched and what is
mentioned online? 279
Fereshteh Didegah
PART IV RESEARCH CULTURES AND CAREERS
23 The state-of-the-art of research on science research careers 293
Carolina Cañibano, Richard Woolley, Eric J. Iversen and Carmen Corona-Sobrino
24 Meaning and purpose in academic research: researchers of the 1990s vs 2010s 309
Gerlese S. Åkerlind
25 Post-PhD careers: mobility and ‘research’ in the non-academic arena 322
Lynn McAlpine
26 Hiding in plain sight: research management as a practice and profession
in the scholarly ecosystem 332
Julie Bayley and Kieran Fenby-Hulse
27 Stratification and cumulative advantages in academia: gender and
national differences 341
Jens Peter Andersen
28 The gendered minoritisation of public engagement with research 355
Richard Watermeyer
Index
