ABSTRACT
During the last decade we have witnessed lively debates on two interlinked issues: how to ensure a higher level of visibility for Humanities research outputs, and how to establish assessment mechanisms for Humanities research. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of existing attempts in both directions, with special emphasis on possible impacts of evaluation mechanisms on publication cultures characteristic of the disciplines that traditionally comprise the research domain of the Humanities. 2 Discussions and proposals on the above issues, both in academic circles and in funding bodies across Europe, clearly indicate the need for providing more visibility for Humanities research. At the same time, many stress the need for better grounded assessment mechanisms. However, opinions on what is the best way to go forward vary a great deal and, in principle, not much is said about the possible effects such types of research assessments could have on the way Humanities scholars will publish in the future and to what extent evaluations of different kinds may affect the research output landscape.
