Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247308 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2021/39
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
In this paper we answer the question of how evaluation should be by proposing a good evaluation of research practices. A good evaluation of research practices, intended as social practices à la MacIntyre, should take into account the stable motivations and the traits of the characters (i.e. the virtues) of researchers. We also show that a good evaluation is also just, beyond the sense of fairness, as working on good research practices implies keep into account a broader sense of justice. After that, we propose the development of a knowledge base for the assessment of "good" evaluations of research practices to implement a questionnaire for the assessment of researchers' virtues. Although the latter is a challenging task, the use of ontologies and taxonomic knowledge, and the reasoning algorithms that can make inferences on the basis of such knowledge represents a way for testing the consistency of the information reported in the questionnaire and to analyze in a correct and coherent way the data gathered through it.
Subjects: 
research evaluation
research practices
virtue ethics
good evaluation
fair evaluation
just evaluation
ontology-based modelling
questionnaire
JEL: 
I2
I23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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