Visibility of scientific monographs in the academic field: the institutional assessment of research

The scientific monographs are a paradigmatic case of the changes that the electronic publishing and the digital environment have introduced over the last few years in the scientific communication circuit. On the one hand, its importance in the fields of Social Science and Humanities tends to move towards other forms of representation, basically research articles, and on the other hand, its visibility is increasingly conditioned by factors inherent in the digital environment. On the basis of these assumptions, a study on the context of scientific monographs in the systems of assessment and institutional accreditation of research has been conducted, taking as references the research requirements for the accreditation of the different faculty figures and those for obtaining "the six-year research periods".