Research
CASRAI standards for social sciences & humanities research
Social sciences and humanities (SSH) research has distinctive scholarly conventions: monographs, edited volumes, book chapters, critical editions, and datasets are first-class outputs, citation patterns are slower and more book-centred, and bibliodiversity and multilingualism are core values. Narrative and qualitative assessment matter more than journal metrics. CASRAI vocabulary helps SSH communities describe these output types, contributions, and data consistently, complementing infrastructures such as OPERAS and DOAB.
Global SSH research community across universities and societies
What this sector cares about
Key research-administration concerns
- Describing book-based outputs (monographs, chapters, editions) alongside articles and datasets
- Bibliodiversity and multilingual publishing — supporting non-English outputs
- Narrative / qualitative assessment rather than citation-count metrics
- Contribution attribution for collaborative and single-author humanities work
- Data and source description for qualitative, archival, and mixed-method research
- Discoverability via OPERAS, DOAB, and open-access book infrastructure
Standards in play
Relevant standards beyond CASRAI
- CRediT
- ORCID
- ROR
- DataCite
- FAIR data principles
- DOAB / OPERAS metadata
- DORA + CoARA
Typical actors
Who's involved
- Humanities scholar
- Social scientist
- Monograph author
- Series / volume editor
- Repository / library curator
- Learned society
