Emanuel Kulczycki

Journal articles

2026

  • Kwiecień, K., Kislenko, I., & Kulczycki, E. (2026). Limited western circulation of Soviet scientometrics: The case of Naukometriya. Scientometrics, 131(10), 7375–7394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05786-9
  • Kislenko, I., & Kulczycki, E. (2026). Western influence or local efforts? John Bernal and the Soviet organization of scientific information. Journal of Documentation. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2026-0158
  • Moreno-Hernandez, D. R., Kulczycki, E., & Cortés, J. D. (2026). Disciplinary diversity, group size, and researcher rank as drivers of scientific performance: Evidence from social science research groups in Colombia. Research Evaluation, 35, rvag057. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvag057
  • Kislenko, I., & Kulczycki, E. (2026). The Matilda Effect in Soviet scientometrics? Nalimov, Mulchenko, and the origins of Naukometriya. Quantitative Science Studies, 7, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss.a.397 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Pölönen, J., Laakso, M., & Taşkın, Z. (2026). Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations. Scientometrics, 131(2), 825–844. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05304-3 [Link]
  • Stephen, D., Cramer, M., Kulczycki, E., Reinhart, M., Vasen, F., Krzeski, J., Faria, R., Koley, M., & Drymioti, M. (2026). Studying ‘predatory publishing’ in the context of research evaluation: conceptual and methodological challenges. Research Evaluation, 35, rvag025. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvag025
  • Kulczycki, E., Alonso-Gamboa, J. O., Beigel, F., Digiampietri, L., Laakso, M., Pölönen, J., Taşkın, Z., & Vélez Cuartas, G. (2026). Beyond the Oligopoly: Scholarly Journal Publishing Landscapes in Latin America and Europe. Journal of Data and Information Science, 11(3), 490–508. https://doi.org/10.1515/jdis-2025-0440

2025

  • Taşkın, Z., Pölönen, J., Kulczycki, E., & Laakso, M. (2025). Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind Web of Science indexed journals. Quantitative Science Studies, 6, 940–966. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss.a.14 [PDF]
  • Dzięgiel, G., Kulczycki, E., Maziarczyk, A., & Korytkowski, P. (2025). The impact of a publisher list on publication patterns: evidence from Poland. Research Evaluation, 34, rvaf018. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf018 [Link]
  • Ayeni, P., Kulczycki, E., & Bowker, L. (2025). Machine Translation in Scholarly Publishing: A Scoping Review. The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 48(1), 123–145. https://doi.org/10.5206/cjils-rcsib.v48i1.22296 [PDF]

2024

  • Kulczycki, E. (2024). Reframing scientometrics: How ontological understanding of science influences what we count and how we interpret it. Qualität in der Wissenschaft, (4), 102–108. [PDF]
  • Lewandowska, K., Ochsner, M., & Kulczycki, E. (2024). Research quality criteria in the Creative Arts. Studies in Higher Education, 49(4), 639–653. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2023.2248174 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Hołowiecki, M., Taşkın, Z., & Doğan, G. (2024). Questionable conferences and presenters from top-ranked universities. Journal of Information Science, 50(2), 303–316. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221087674 [PDF]

2023

  • Krzeski, J., Szadkowski, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2023). Ustanawianie ewaluacyjnej homogeniczności: konflikty wokół Wykazu czasopism naukowych z 2019 roku. Nauka, (4), 121–140. https://doi.org/10.24425/nauka.2023.148231 [PDF]
  • Koza, Z., Lew, R., Kulczycki, E., & Stec, P. (2023). Who Controls the National Academic Promotion System: An Analysis of Power Distribution in Poland. SAGE Open, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231177974 [PDF]
  • Taşkın, Z., Krawczyk, F., & Kulczycki, E. (2023). Are papers published in predatory journals worthless? A geopolitical dimension revealed by content-based analysis of citations. Quantitative Science Studies, 4(1), 44–67. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00242 [PDF]
  • Lewandowska, K., Kulczycki, E., & Ochsner, M. (2023). Evaluation of the arts in performance-based research funding systems: An international perspective. Research Evaluation, 32(1), 19–31. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvac017 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Zambrano Mena, Y. A., & Krawczyk, F. (2023). Budowa i charakterystyka Korpusu Polskich Czasopism Naukoznawczych. Zagadnienia Informacji Naukowej, 61(2), 9–31. https://doi.org/10.36702/zin2023.02.01 [Link]
  • Krawczyk, S., Szadkowski, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2023). Identifying top researchers in highly metricized academia: Two discursive strategies of senior officials in Poland. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 44(2), 269–280. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2021.1993792 [Link]

2022

  • Kulczycki, E., & Jemielniak, D. (2022). Nie hukiem, ale skomleniem. Nauka, 77-88. DOI: 10.24425/nauka.2022.142921 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Huang, Y., Zuccala, A. A., Engels, T. C. E., Ferrara, A., Guns, R., Pölönen, J., Sivertsen, G., Taşkın, Z., & Zhang, L. (2022). Uses of the Journal Impact Factor in national journal rankings in China and Europe. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(12), 1741–1754. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24706 [Link]
  • Krzeski, J., Szadkowski, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2022). Creating evaluative homogeneity: Experience of constructing a national journal ranking. Research Evaluation, 31(3), 410–422. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvac011 [PDF]
  • Taşkın, Z., Taşkın, A., Doğan, G., & Kulczycki, E. (2022). Factors affecting time to publication in information science. Scientometrics, 127(12), 7499–7515. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04296-8 [PDF]
  • Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Kulczycki, E., & Żelaźniewicz, A. (2022). The impact of geographical bias when judging scientific studies. Scientometrics, 127(1), 265–273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04176-7 [PDF]
  • Lewandowska, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2022). Academic research evaluation in artistic disciplines: The case of Poland. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 47(2), 284–296. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2021.1893651 [PDF]
  • Smolarska, Z., Lewandowska, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2022). Artyści wobec kultury audytu. Wpływ systemu ewaluacji nauki na uczelnie artystyczne. Nauka, (3), 109–131. https://doi.org/10.24425/nauka.2022.140348

2021

  • Kulczycki, E., Kolasa, W. M., & Szadkowski, K. (2021). Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin as highly cited researchers? Historical bibliometrics study. Scientometrics, 126(10), 8683–8700. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04126-3 [PDF]
  • Krawczyk, F., & Kulczycki, E. (2021). On the geopolitics of academic publishing: The mislocated centers of scholarly communication. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 4(1), 1984641. DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2021.1984641 [PDF]
  • Taşkın, Z., Doğan, G., Kulczycki, E., & Zuccala, A. A. (2021). Self-Citation Patterns of Journals Indexed in the Journal Citation Reports. Journal of Informetrics, 15(4), 101221. DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2021.101221 [PDF]
  • Lewandowska, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2021). Science policy as implicit cultural policy: Evaluation of the arts in Polish academia. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(2), 202–217. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1873963 [Link]
  • Kulczycki, E., Hołowiecki, M., Taşkın, Z., & Krawczyk, F. (2021). Citation patterns between impact-factor and questionable journals. Scientometrics, 126(10), 8541–8560. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04121-8 [PDF]

    Polish version: Kulczycki, E., Hołowiecki, M., Taşkın, Z., & Krawczyk, F. (2021). Drapieżne czasopisma są legitymizowane przez artykuły w czasopismach z impact factor. Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, 83(2), 59–82. https://doi.org/10.14746/rpeis.2021.83.2.5 [PDF]
  • Zuccala, A. A., Pölönen, J., Guns, R., Røeggen, V., Kulczycki, E., Bruun, K., & Savolainen, E. (2021). Performance-based publisher ratings and the visibility/impact of books: Small fish in a big pond, or big fish in a small pond? Quantitative Science Studies, 2(2), 588–615. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00134 [PDF]
  • Petr, M., Engels, T. C. E., Kulczycki, E., Dušková, M., Guns, R., Sieberová, M., & Sivertsen, G. (2021). Journal article publishing in the social sciences and humanities: A comparison of Web of Science coverage for five European countries. PLOS ONE, 16(4), e0249879. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249879 [PDF]
  • Krawczyk, F., & Kulczycki, E. (2021). How is open access accused of being predatory? The impact of Beall’s lists of predatory journals on academic publishing. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(2), 102271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2020.102271 [PDF]
  • Korytkowski, P., & Kulczycki, E. (2021). The gap between Plan S requirements and grantees’ publication practices. Journal of Informetrics, 15(2), 101156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101156 [PDF]
  • Pölönen, J., Guns, R., Kulczycki, E., Sivertsen, G., & Engels, T. C. E. (2021). National lists of scholarly publication channels: An overview and recommendations for their construction and maintenance. Journal of Data and Information Science, 6(1), 50–86. https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2021-0004 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Rozkosz, E. A., Szadkowski, K., Ciereszko, K., Hołowiecki, M., & Krawczyk, F. (2021). Local use of metrics for the research assessment of academics: The case of Poland. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 43(4), 435–453. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2020.1846243 [Link]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2021). Polityczna ingerencja w Wykaz czasopism naukowych. Dlaczego wykazy muszą być w rękach naukowców. Nauka, (2), 39–77. https://doi.org/10.24425/nauka.2021.136315 [PDF]

2020

  • Kulczycki, E., Guns, R., Pölönen, J., Engels, T. C. E., Rozkosz, E. A., Zuccala, A. A., Bruun, K., Eskola, O., Istenič Starčič, A., Petr, M., & Sivertsen, G. (2020). Multilingual Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities: A Seven‐Country European Study. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 71(11), 1371–1385. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24336 [PDF]
  • Pölönen, J., Laakso, M., Guns, R., Kulczycki, E., & Sivertsen, G. (2020). Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(4), 1396–1428. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00084 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., & Korytkowski, P. (2020). Researchers publishing monographs are more productive and more local-oriented. Scientometrics, 125(2), 1371–1387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03376-x [PDF]
  • Antonowicz, D., Kulczycki, E., & Budzanowska, A. (2020). Breaking the deadlock of mistrust? A participative model of the structural reforms in higher education in Poland. Higher Education Quarterly, 74(4), 391–409. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12254 [Link]
  • Benneworth, P., Engels, T. C. E., Galleron, I., Kulczycki, E., Ochsner, M., Sivertsen, G., Šinkūnienė, J., & Williams, G. (2020). Challenging evaluation in SSH: round table discussion. Darbai ir dienos, (73), 107–126. [PDF]

2019

  • Kulczycki, E. (2019). Field patterns of scientometric indicators use for presenting research portfolio for assessment. Research Evaluation, 28(2), 169–181. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvy043 [Link]
  • Korytkowski, P., & Kulczycki, E. (2019). Examining how country-level science policy shapes publication patterns: the case of Poland. Scientometrics, 119(3), 1519–1543. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03092-1 [PDF]
  • Korytkowski, P., & Kulczycki, E. (2019). Publication counting methods for a national research evaluation exercise. Journal of Informetrics, 13(3), 804–816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.07.001 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Rozkosz, E. A., & Drabek, A. (2019). Internationalization of Polish Journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Transformative Role of The Research Evaluation System. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 44(1), 9–38. https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs28794 [PDF]

    Polish version: Kulczycki, E., Rozkosz, E. A., & Drabek, A. (2019). Umiędzynarodowienie polskich czasopism w naukach społecznych i humanistycznych – transformacyjna rola systemu ewaluacji nauki. Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe, 1–2(53–54), 331–357. https://doi.org/10.14746/nisw.2019.1-2.11 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Rozkosz, E. A., Engels, T. C. E., Guns, R., & Hołowiecki, M. (2019). How to identify peer-reviewed publications: Open-identity labels in scholarly book publishing. PLOS ONE, 14(3), e0214423. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214423 [PDF]

    Polish version: Kulczycki, E., Rozkosz, E. A., Engels, T. C. E., Guns, R., Hołowiecki, M., Pölönen, J., & Ciereszko, K. (2019). Jak rozpoznać recenzowane publikacje – o etykietach z otwartymi danymi recenzentów w monografiach naukowych. Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe, 1–2(53–54), 183–217. https://doi.org/10.14746/nisw.2019.1-2.6 [PDF]
  • Vanholsbeeck, M., Demetriou, T., Girkontaite, A., Istenič Starčič, A., Keiski, V., Kulczycki, E., Papanastasiou, E., Pölönen, J., Proppe, H., & Vehovec, M. (2019). Senior academics as key negotiators in the implementation of impact policies in the social sciences and humanities. Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, 48, 74–81. https://doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2019.371 [PDF]
  • Giménez-Toledo, E., Mañana-Rodríguez, J., Engels, T. C. E., Guns, R., Kulczycki, E., Ochsner, M., Pölönen, J., Sivertsen, G., & Zuccala, A. A. (2019). Taking scholarly books into account, part II: a comparison of 19 European countries in evaluation and funding. Scientometrics, 118(1), 233–251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2956-7 [Link]

2018

  • Kulczycki, E., Engels, T. C. E., Pölönen, J., Bruun, K., Dušková, M., Guns, R., Nowotniak, R., Petr, M., Sivertsen, G., Istenič Starčič, A., & Zuccala, A. A. (2018). Publication patterns in the social sciences and humanities: evidence from eight European countries. Scientometrics, 116(1), 463–486. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2711-0 [PDF]
  • Engels, T. C. E., Istenič Starčič, A., Kulczycki, E., Pölönen, J., & Sivertsen, G. (2018). Are book publications disappearing from scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities? Aslib Journal of Information Management, 70(6), 592–607. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-05-2018-0127 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2018). The diversity of monographs: Changing landscape of book evaluation in Poland. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 70(6), 608–622. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-03-2018-0062 [Link]
  • Kulczycki, E., & Korytkowski, P. (2018). Redesigning the Model of Book Evaluation in the Polish Performance-based Research Funding System. Journal of Data and Information Science, 3(4), 61–73. https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2018-0021 [PDF]

    Chinese version: Kulczycki, E., & Korytkowski, P. (2018). 重新设计波兰基于绩效的科研资助体系中的图书评价模型. Journal of Data and Information Science, 3(4). [PDF]
  • Sīle, L., Pölönen, J., Sivertsen, G., Guns, R., Engels, T. C. E., Arefiev, P., Dušková, M., Faurbæk, L., Holl, A., Kulczycki, E., Macan, B., Nelhans, G., Petr, M., Pisk, M., Soós, S., Stojanovski, J., Stone, A., Šušol, J., & Teitelbaum, R. (2018). Comprehensiveness of national bibliographic databases for social sciences and humanities: findings from a European survey. Research Evaluation, 27(4), 310–322. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvy016 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2018). Książkowe publikacje naukowe w europejskich systemach ewaluacji nauki. Nauka, (2), 29–45. https://doi.org/10.24425/nauka.2019.126190 [PDF]

2017

  • Sorokowski, P., Kulczycki, E., Sorokowska, A., & Pisanski, K. (2017). Predatory journals recruit fake editor. Nature, 543(7646), 481–483. https://doi.org/10.1038/543481a [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2017). Assessing publications through a bibliometric indicator: The case of comprehensive evaluation of scientific units in Poland. Research Evaluation, 26(1), 41–52. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvw023 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., & Rozkosz, E. A. (2017). Does an expert-based evaluation allow us to go beyond the Impact Factor? Experiences from building a ranking of national journals in Poland. Scientometrics, 111(1), 417–442. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2261-x [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Korzeń, M., & Korytkowski, P. (2017). Toward an excellence-based research funding system: Evidence from Poland. Journal of Informetrics, 11(1), 282–298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.01.001 [Link]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2017). Kariera drapieżnych czasopism – przypadek Anny O. Szust. Nauka, (3). [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2017). Wprowadzenie. Wyzwania instytucjonalnej ewaluacji nauki. Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe, 1(49), 7–16. https://doi.org/10.14746/nisw.2017.1.0 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2017). Punktoza jako strategia w grze parametrycznej w Polsce. Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe, 1(49), 63–78. https://doi.org/10.14746/nisw.2017.1.4 [PDF]

2016

  • Kulczycki, E. (2016). Rethinking Open Science: The Role of Communication. Annals of the University of Craiova – Philosophy Series, 37(1), 81–97. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Rozkosz, E. A., & Drabek, A. (2016). Ocena ekspercka jako trzeci wymiar ewaluacji krajowych czasopism naukowych. Nauka, (1), 107–142. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2016). Ocena humanistyki w świetle wyzwań Narodowego Programu Rozwoju Humanistyki. Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa, 52(1(207)), 149–162. [PDF]
  • Antonowicz, D., Brdulak, J., Hulicka, M., Jędrzejewski, T., Kowalski, T., Kulczycki, E., Szadkowski, K., Szot, A., Wolszczak-Derlacz, J., & Kwiek, M. (2016). Reformować? Nie reformować? Szerszy kontekst zmian w szkolnictwie wyższym. Nauka, (4). [PDF]

2015

  • Drabek, A., Rozkosz, E. A., Hołowiecki, M., & Kulczycki, E. (2015). Polski Współczynnik Wpływu a kultury cytowań w humanistyce. Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe, 2(46), 121–138. https://doi.org/10.14746/nsw.2015.2.4 [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Drabek, A., & Rozkosz, E. A. (2015). Publikacje a zgłoszenia ewaluacyjne, czyli zniekształcony obraz nauki w Polsce. Nauka, (3), 35–58. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., Rozkosz, E. A., & Drabek, A. (2015). Publikacje polskich badaczy w czasopismach z list ERIH w kontekście ewaluacji jednostek naukowych. Kultura i Edukacja, 107(1), 149–172. https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2015.01.08 [PDF]

2014

  • Kulczycki, E. (2014). On the philosophical status of the transmission metaphor. Central European Journal of Communication, 7(2(13)), 175–188. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2014). Communication History and Its Research Subject. Annals of the University of Craiova – Philosophy Series, 33(1), 132–155. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2014). On the Development of Scholarly Communication. A Philosophical Approach to the Communication History. Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia, 4 (English Edition), 51–63. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2014). Zasady oceny czasopism humanistycznych i ich rola w parametryzacji jednostek naukowych. Nauka, (3), 117–140. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E., & Wendland, M. (2014). O kulturalistycznej teorii komunikacji. Kultura – Media – Teologia, (16), 9–25. [PDF]

2013

2012

  • Kulczycki, E. (2012). Sytuacja komunikacyjna w kulturze archaicznej a symboliczność komunikacji. Filo-Sofija, 16(1), 39–52. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2012). Źródła transmisyjnego ujęcia procesu komunikacji. Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 11(1), 21–36.

2011

  • Kulczycki, E. (2011). „Dziedzictwo Schramma” jako źródło specyfiki polskiej nauki o komunikacji. Lingua ac Communitas, 21, 79–88. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2011). Kulturowo-obiektywne istnienie procesu komunikacji jako warunek projektowania autonomicznej dyscypliny komunikacji. Kultura i Historia, 20. [PDF]

2009

  • Kulczycki, E. (2009). The Development of Leibniz’s Considerations in John Yench’s Project. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 15(28), 211–220. [PDF]

2008

  • Kulczycki, E. (2008). Sytuacja naukowych periodyków elektronicznych na przykładzie czasopisma „Homo Communicativus”. Homo Communicativus, 5(3), 19–24. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2008). Edward Sapir’s View About International Auxiliary Language. Lingua ac Communitas, 18, 65–71. [PDF]
  • Kulczycki, E. (2008). Status komunikologii — przyczynek do dyskusji. Homo Communicativus, 3(1), 27–37. [PDF]

2007

  • Kulczycki, E. (2007). Utopia języka doskonałego w europejskim kręgu kulturowym. Homo Communicativus, 2(1), 65–77. [PDF]

2006

  • Kulczycki, E. (2006). Język a podróż. Homo Communicativus, 1(1), 9–15. [PDF]