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- Convenors:
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Eleonora Dagiene
(Leiden University, Mykolas Romeris University)
Justina Pociūnaitė-Ott (Mykolas Romeris University)
Karolina Bagdonė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore)
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- Chair:
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Eleonora Dagiene
(Leiden University, Mykolas Romeris University)
- Format:
- Roundtable
Short Abstract
This roundtable debates the socio-technical flaws in research assessment systems that disadvantage multilingual scholarship and focuses on the lack of book metadata, the tyranny of prestige metrics, and the infrastructural barriers to fair, language-aware evaluation in the SSH.
Description
This roundtable engages the conference stream of Transitions by exploring how to build resilient evaluation futures (more-than-now). Scholarly books, particularly in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), are currently assessed via unstable prestige metrics and deeply flawed data infrastructures, hindering the recognition of multilingual scholarship.
The discussion is grounded in the observation of a critical ‘digitalisation gap’—where evaluation-critical metadata (such as peer review status, approval or funding statements) exists only in physical books, failing to be captured by national research and library databases. This infrastructural failure acts as an asymmetry of data and power, reinforcing the structural marginalisation of local, non-English scholarship and directly undermining efforts to promote multilingualism in science.
The debate contributes critically to STS by extending analysis of metrical systems to the materiality and infrastructural governance of scholarly knowledge. We seek short (5–10 minute) contributions that will ignite debate on the following key questions:
– How do national infrastructural deficiencies (e.g., in CRIS systems or library catalogues) perpetuate English dominance and compromise the value of research published in other languages?
– What political and ethical implications arise from using insufficient book metadata and publisher prestige to govern research quality in linguistically diverse environments?
– What socio-technical practices and reforms are necessary to achieve equitable, language-aware evaluation of scholarly books?
We invite proposals focusing on case studies, conceptual critiques, and emerging reforms related to the infrastructure and politics of scholarly book evaluation in multilingual or structurally marginal contexts.