Franciszek Krawczyk, PhD is a part-time assistant professor in the Scholarly Communication Research Group of Adam Mickiewicz University. In his works, he applies system analysis to the studies of higher education and academic publishing. He recently completed his postdoc project Is Trinity College Dublin semi-peripheral? Study of two conflicting traditions of writing about centre and peripheries in Dublin. Now he leads a project Investigating the Relationship between Science Diplomacy and Global DGT: The Role of Inclusive Metascience Observatories (IMSO4DIPLO) and he works as a postdoc in a project Predatory publishing practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems?.
For his research on scholarly communication, he received a Polish Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Young Scientists. He is a board member of the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society. In 2024, he defended a PhD in Philosophy with a thesis titled Science without centre? Resistance against the domination of the centre in academic peripheries at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He published papers on centres and peripheries of knowledge production and predatory publishing. In his future work, he plans to focus more on the forgotten history of academic publishing in the socialist countries.
Selected publications:
Krawczyk, F., & Gibson, A. G. (2025). The debate on centres and peripheries in higher education: Returning concepts to the critical cycle. Learning and Teaching, 18(2), 34-57
Kulczycki E., Yeimer Z., Krawczyk F. (2023). The structure and characteristics of the Corpus of Polish Science of Science Journals. Zagadnienia Informacji Naukowej, 61(2), 1–22, DOI: 10.36702/zin2023.02.01.1
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, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_
Krawczyk, Franciszek & Kulczycki, Emanuel (2021). On the geopolitics of academic publishing: the mislocated centers of scholarly communication. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 4(1), 1984641
Kulczycki, E., Hołowiecki, M., Taşkın, Z., & Krawczyk, F. (2021). Citation patterns between impact-factor and questionable journals. Scientometrics, 1-20.
Krawczyk, Franciszek & Kulczycki, Emanuel (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.
Kulczycki, E., Rozkosz, E., Szadkowski, K., Ciereszko, K., Hołowiecki, M., & Krawczyk, F. (2020). Local use of metrics for the research assessment of academics: The case of Poland. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/
Krawczyk, Franciszek. (2020). Geopolityka drapieżnych czasopism: Pozorne centra w globalnym systemie produkcji wiedzy. Nauka, 1, 133–149. DOI: 10.24425/nauka.2020.132626
Research visits:
March 2025 – February 2026 – postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin The Cultures, Academic Values in Education Center
2022 (March-June) – research visit to the Centre for Higher Education Futures, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.