论文标题
学术书籍出版商的声望：对国家的标准，过程和实践的调查
Prestige of scholarly book publishers: an investigation into criteria, processes, and practices across countries
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论文摘要
许多国家研究评估政策的目标是促进“卓越”，并激励学者在最负盛名的期刊或最负盛名的书籍出版商中发表其研究。我们根据书籍出版商的声望（丹麦，芬兰，法兰德斯，立陶宛，挪威）对书籍产出的评估进行了实用。此外，我们测试了这种判断是否透明并产生一致的结果。我们表现出在出版商的级别上的不一致之处，例如在不同州或随后在同一国家内的几年中，同一出版商被评为享有声望和不那么久经的出版商。同样，我们发现，由于缺乏透明度，对遵守强制性先决条件的验证并不总是可能。我们的发现支持对基于其出版商的判断的书籍评估是否会产生可接受的结果的疑问。当前使用的出版商排名专注于评估出版商的守门角色，但没有评估学术书籍出版中的其他基本阶段。我们对未来研究的建议是通过考虑每个出版阶段中添加到的每本书的价值来开发评估书籍的方法，这对于从研究评估和学术沟通观点的书籍输出质量至关重要。
Numerous national research assessment policies set the goal of promoting "excellence" and incentivise scholars to publish their research in the most prestigious journals or with the most prestigious book publishers. We investigate the practicalities of the assessment of book outputs based on the prestige of book publishers (Denmark, Finland, Flanders, Lithuania, Norway). Additionally, we test whether such judgments are transparent and yield consistent results. We show inconsistencies in the levelling of publishers, such as the same publisher being ranked as prestigious and not-so-prestigious in different states or in consequent years within the same country. Likewise, we find that verification of compliance with the mandatory prerequisites is not always possible because of the lack of transparency. Our findings support doubts about whether the assessment of books based on a judgement about their publisher yields acceptable outcomes. Currently used rankings of publishers focus on evaluating the gatekeeping role of publishers but do not assess other essential stages in scholarly book publishing. Our suggestion for future research is to develop approaches to evaluate books by accounting for the value added to every book at every publishing stage, which is vital for the quality of book outputs from research assessment and scholarly communication perspectives.
