Use of the ERIH 'Initial' lists

The ERIH lists will help to identify excellence in Humanities scholarship and should prove useful for the aggregate benchmarking of national research systems, for example, in determining the international standing of the research activity carried out in a given field in a particular country. However, as they stand, the lists are not a bibliometric tool. The ERIH Steering Committee and the Expert Panels therefore advise against using the lists as the only basis for assessment of individual candidates for positions or promotions or of applicants for research grants.

ERIH 'Initial' lists

Please read carefully the ERIH Summary guidelines used by ESF Member Organisations and Expert Panels in order to fully understand the categorisation criteria. In particular, please be aware that the distinction between the categories A, B and C is not primarily qualitative; rather, the categorisation also factors in issues such as scope and audience as explained in the guidelines.

Please note that the same journal may occur on several lists and may be given a different categorisation depending on its importance in the discipline.

Explanation of terms used in this page:

Scope notes: contain links to documents that set out the disciplinary field  covered by the panel

Initial lists: the 14 lists published to date

Statistics: distribution of language of publication and place of publication

Integrated: with integrated information about language of publication and place of publication

        ERIH "Initial" lists and related documents