The impacts of a standardized bibliometric evaluation: The case of social science publications in a multidisciplinary university section
In France, Hcéres has been placing impact bibliometrics at the heart of the evaluation process of sports sciences (STAPS) research units since 2018. This article sets out to analyze the effects of this shift in the valuation of social science productions, during laboratory evaluations as well as on the scholarly practices of the players involved. The evaluation reports of six laboratories as well as twelve interviews with teacher-researchers show that the new guide to the products of research profoundly alters their activity. It is applied with a zeal that reinforces the centrality of SCImago Journal Ranking, which has become a normative tool of appraisal. The teacher-researchers concerned are developing dual strategies in order to cope with these new requirements while also giving themselves alternative spaces for expression and recognition.