Un ranking internazionale per le riviste di storia

The history of the initiative of the European Science Foundation (Esf) to create a European Reference Index for the Humanities (Erih), intended to replace peer review by metrics, is reconstructed, with an analysis of the multiple limitations, distortions and negative consequences, that are apparent in the initial list, rendered public on the web in 2007. This followed by three case studies, of this followed by accounts of the highly negative responses to the initiative of the research communities and funding bodies in Germany, France and England. Key words: Ranking, History journals, Erih, Humanities, Peer Review. Parole chiave: Ranking, riviste di storia, Erih, Scienze umane, Peer Review

Art · Humanities · Index (typography · Information retrieval · Library science · Political science · Ranking (information retrieval · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Analyses · Italian Literature and Culture · Library Science and Information Systems