Principal Investigator
Ongoing
Predatory publishing practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems? (2024–2028)
Total funding amount: 1,144,800 EUR (including budget for the Polish team: 321,200 EUR).
Funding institution: Volkswagen Foundation
My role: Principal Investigator of the Polish team. Joint project with Dr. Dimity Stephen (DZHW, Germany), Prof. Dr. Martin Reinhart (Humboldt University Berlin), Prof. Rita Maria (University of Porto, Portugal).
The recent shift in evaluation systems to more diverse quality criteria has increased the visibility of lower quality research, incurring a moral panic about the effects of predatory publish practices on the science system. However, this concern currently lacks empirical substantiation and ignores the complex geopolitical relations, researchers’ motivations, and centre-periphery narrative inherent in the predatory publishing debate. Thus, the project uses a mixed-methods approach to answering three questions: How have publishing practices in different national settings emerged? How do academic communities define and react to predatory publishing practices? And how do evaluation systems influence (predatory) publishing practices? The aim is to elucidate the relationship between evaluation systems and (predatory) publishing practices, accounting for the contextual processes of labelling practices as questionable. The approach combines systematic review, quantitative and bibliometric methods to identify (changing) publishing practices associated with evaluation systems, together with qualitative methods to understand the motivations for these practices in six national systems: Germany, Poland, Portugal, Nigeria, India, and Brazil. Comparing multiple case studies lends validity to casual inferences and the results of this project would have implications for the design of evaluation systems.
Investigating the Relationship between Science Diplomacy and Global DGT: The Role of Inclusive Metascience Observatories (IMSO4DIPLO) [2024-2026]
Total funding amount: $1,249,669 USD (including budget for the Polish team: 821 480 PLN).
Funding institution: Trans-Atlantic Platform, NCN
My role: Principal Investigator of the Polish team.
Lead-PI: Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology Consortium: Kieron Flanagan, University of Manchester; Amâncio Jorge Silva Nunes de Oliveira, University of Sao Paulo; Emanuel Kulczycki, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan; Johann Mouton, Stellenbosch University; Didier Torny, CNRS; Lariviere Vincent, Université de Montréal.
This project is examining the role of evidence-informed science diplomacy as a strategic instrument to strengthen democracy, governance, and trust (DGT). The project will utilize qualitative and quantitative methods to (1) understand the relationship between science diplomacy and DGT; (2) conceptualize and operationalize metascience observatories and investigate the extent to which they can be leveraged to improve science diplomacy; and (3) explore how threats to DGT could be mitigated and opportunities seized through inclusive metascience observatories. The outputs will include both academic-oriented products, as well as communications to policymakers and the wider public, honouring the practices of open science. In addition to these products, outcomes will include communities of practice for science diplomats and training opportunities for early-career researchers.
Completed
Evaluation Game in Academia (2018–2023)
Total funding amount: 500,000 EUR (2.14 million PLN).
Funding institution: National Science Centre in Poland
My role: Principal Investigator
Website: link
The main goal of this project is to investigate how copying the regulations of the national research evaluation system in Poland into the local regulations of universities and faculties has produced the parametric game (‘punktoza’ in Polish) and transformed the publication patterns of scholars in the field of social sciences and humanities.
European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (2016–2020)
Total funding amount: 728,000 EUR
Funding institution: COST – EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020
My role: Chair, Scientific Representative (Grant Holder)
Website: link
The challenge of the Action is to enable the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) to better demonstrate their true place in academia and society. To do so, the Action proposes to bring together different strands of work consecrated to SSH research evaluation, currently under development in different parts of Europe, in order to gain momentum, to exchange best practices and results, and to avoid unnecessary duplication.
Polish Humanities in the face of the Scientometrics (2014–2018)
Total funding amount: 90,000 EUR (0.4 million PLN).
Funding institution: National Programme for the Development of Humanities in Poland
My role: Principal Investigator
Website: link
The aim of the project is to investigate how the social sciences and humanities are defined within science policy and how they are evaluated through various scientometric indicators in Poland. We will investigate whether the humanities can be evaluated through the bibliometrics indicators and how scholars in of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland adapt to the bibliometrics assessment.
Investigator in other grants
Ongoing
Information System for the Analysis of Bibliographies of Polish Scientific Texts (2024–2026)
Total funding amount: 400,000 EUR (1 735 800,00 PLN).
Funding institution: Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland
My role: Research Professor (PI: Przemysław Korytkowski)
Preventing Questionable Publishing Practices through Responsible Research Evaluation Policies that Consider Geopolitical Dynamics (2024–2026)
Total funding amount: 40,000 EUR.
Funding institution: Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
My role: Scientific Advisor (PI: Zehra Taşkın)
Completed
Linguistic privilege and marginalization in scholarly communication: Understanding the role of new language technologies for shifting language dynamics (2023)
Total funding amount: $30,000.
Funding institution: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada
My role: Scientific Advisor (PI: Lynne Bowker)
Between art and research: Evaluation of creative arts in performance-based research funding systems (2020–2022)
Total funding amount: 85,000 EUR (0.39 million PLN).
Funding institution: National Science Centre in Poland
My role: Investigator (PI: Kamila Lewandowska)
Website: link
Research into Excellence Patterns in Science and Art (2017–2020)
Total funding amount: 465,000 EUR (2.0 million PLN).
Funding institution: Ministry of Science and Higher Institution (DIALOG Program)
My role: Investigator (PI: Przemysław Korytkowski)
Website: link
History of Communication in the perspective of the philosophy of culture (2012–2015)
Total funding amount: 80,000 EUR (0.35 million PLN).
Funding institution: National Science Centre in Poland
My role: Main Investigator (PI: Michał Wendland)
Policy and cultural projects
Below, I have listed other projects in which I worked as a team member or an expert.
- 2017–2018: Research Excellence: competitiveness, measurability, internationalization (from empirical research to higher education reforms) (EXCELLENCE). Funder: Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland (DIALOG Programme).
- 2016–2017: Law 2.0. Funder: Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland.
- 2016: Development of doctoral studies programs with various profiles. Funder: Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland.
- 2013–2015: Time of Professionals – Greater Poland vocational training. Funder: Human Capital. National Cohesion Strategy.
- 2014: Digital Archaeologist. Funder: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland.
- 2014: “Enter password”: educational offer for librarians from Greater Poland. Funder: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland.
- 2013: – Children of Network 2.0: young people’s communication skills. Funder: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland.
- 2012: Dzieci sieci: kompetencje komunikacyjne najmłodszych. Funder: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland.
- 2010–2013: Partnership of Science and Progress. Funder: Human Capital. National Cohesion Strategy.