Selected Articles in English

2026

  1. Taşkın, Z. (2026). Sustaining the ‘Frozen Footprints’ of Scholarly Communication through Open Citations. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 77, 23-39. [DOI]

2025

  1. Kulczycki, E., Pölönen, J., Laakso, M. et al. Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations. Scientometrics. [DOI] [Link]
  2. Dzięgiel, G., Kulczycki, E., Maziarczyk, A., Korytkowski, P., The impact of a publisher list on publication patterns: evidence from Poland, Research Evaluation, (34). rvaf018. [DOI] [Link]
  3. Ayeni, P., Kulczycki, E., & Bowker, L. Machine Translation in Scholarly Publishing: A Scoping Review. The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 48(1), 123-145. [DOI] [PDF]
  4. Laakso, M., & Taşkın, Z. (2025). Collaboration in Diamond Open Access publishing. Zenodo. [DOI]
  5. Pölönen, J., & Kulczycki, E. (2025). Multilingualism is important for all fields of science: Evidence from Finland and Poland. In Language and the Knowledge Economy. Routledge. [DOI]
  6. Şener, H. S., Kaya, İ. S., Köksal, M. S., & Taşkın, Z. (2025). Closing the door behind: Metric-based research evaluation systems and gatekeeping towards young researchers. Scientometrics, 130(4), 2291–2310. [DOI]
  7. Szadkowski, K. (2025). For the society as a whole: Higher education and the public good in Poland. Higher Education, 89(1), 259–273. [DOI]
  8. Taşkın, Z. (2025). Sustaining the “frozen footprints” of scholarly communication through open citations. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. [DOI]
  9. Vasen, F. (2025). A delicate balance: Responsible evaluation, tenure review, and the pursuit of institutional innovation. Science and Public Policy, scaf003. [DOI]
  10. 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. [Link]
  11. Kislenko, I., & Kulczycki, E. (2025). The Matilda Effect in Soviet scientometrics? Nalimov, Mulchenko, and the origins of Naukometriya. Quantitative Science Studies. [DOI]
  12. Kislenko, I. (2025). Goodbye, Global East? Failed Strategic Essentialism and Wrong Epistemological Equation Through the Lens of Russia’s War Against Ukraine. Problems of Post-Communism. [DOI]
  13. Seferoğlu, C. B., & Taşkın, Z. (2025). Public libraries on fault lines: Assessing earthquake risk with geographic information systems. Public Library Quarterly. [DOI]
  14. Beton, E. C. Ç., & Taşkın, Z. (2025). Opening Ottoman miniature collections through computational access: Methodological lessons for digital humanities. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11, 55. [DOI]
  15. Aydın, F., & Taşkın, Z. (2025). Research funding in Turkiye: Linking TUBITAK policy change to scientific productivity. Scientometrics, 130(11), 6455 – 6475. Doi: 10.1007/s11192-025-05461-5
  16. 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. [DOI]
  17. Kulczycki, E., Pölönen, J., Laakso, M., & Taşkın, Z. (2025). Learned societies in the academic landscape: Challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations. Scientometrics. [DOI]
  18. Şener, H.S., Kaya, İ.S., Köksal, M.S. & Taşkın, Z. (2025). Closing the door behind: Metric-based research evaluation systems and gatekeeping towards young researchers. Scientometrics, 130, 2291-2310. [DOI]
  19. Harsbo, R., & Brøgger, K. (2025). The illiberal, neo-liberal and collegial university in contemporary Polish higher education. Temporal entanglements and ontological co-existence amidst geopolitical shifts. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1–12. [DOI]

2024

  1. Antonowicz, A., Bijak, F., Dziundzio, A., Małecki, D., Mitka, P., Parulski, P., Pupiec, M., Szadkowski, K., & Wilczyńska, G. (Eds.). (2024). Kamionka zostaje. Heterodox. [Link]
  2. Kasztalska, A., & Swatek, A. (2024). The dynamic role of the English language in contemporary Poland. World Englishes, 43(2), 301–314. [DOI]
  3. Krawczyk, F. (2024). Book review: Ash Vatansever and Aysuda Kölemen (eds.) (2022), Academic freedom and precarity in the Global North: Free as a bird. Learning and Teaching, 17(3), 134–137. [DOI]
  4. Krawczyk, S. (2024). Disciplinary responses to the rise of English in metrics-driven social sciences and humanities. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 0(0), 1–13. [DOI]
  5. Lewandowska, K., Ochsner, M., & Kulczycki, E. (2024). Research quality criteria in the Creative Arts. Studies in Higher Education, 1–15. [DOI] [PDF]
  6. Mochocki, M., Krawczyk, S., & Mochocka, A. (2024). Polish history up to 1795 in Polish games and game studies. Games and Culture, 15554120241228490. [DOI]
  7. Taşkın, Z. (2024). Sürdürülebilir Bilimsel İletişim için Açık Atıf Verisi. Türk Kütüphaneciliği, 38(2). [DOI]
  8. Öztürk, O., & Taşkın, Z. (2024). How metric-based performance evaluation systems fuel the growth of questionable publications? Scientometrics, 129, 2729–2748. [DOI]

2023

  1. Bowker, L., Ayeni, P., & Kulczycki, E. (2023). Linguistic privilege and marginalization in scholarly communication: Understanding the role of new language technologies for shifting language dynamics. [DOI]
  2. 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. [DOI] [PDF]
  3. Krzeski, J. (2023a). In-against-beyond metrics-driven university: A Marxist critique of the capitalist imposition of measure on academic labor. In R. Hall, I. Accioly, & K. Szadkowski (Eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education (pp. 163–182). Springer. [DOI]
  4. Krzeski, J., Szadkowski, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2023). Ustanawianie ewaluacyjnej homogeniczności: Konflikty wokół Wykazu czasopism naukowych z 2019 roku. Kwartalnik NAUKA, 4. [Link]
  5. Taşkın, Z., Krawczyk, F., & Kulczycki, E.  Are papers published in predatory journals worthless? A geopolitical dimension revealed by content-based analysis of citations. Quantitative Science Studies, 1–24. [DOI] [PDF]
  6. Doğan, G., Taşkın, Z., Kulczycki, E., Szadkowski, K. How Inclusive Are the International Conferences? Attending Conferences in an Unequal World. In: Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity. iConference 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13971. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28035-1_37 [Link]
  7. Krzeski, J. Power and agency within the evaluative state: A strategic–relational approach to quantification of higher education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-14. [DOI] [PDF]

2022

  1. Krzeski, J., Szadkowski, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2022). Creating evaluative homogeneity: Experience of constructing a national journal ranking. Research Evaluation. [DOI] [PDF]
  2. Kulczycki, E., & Rotnicka, S. (2022). Consequences of Participating in Questionable Academia: A Global Survey of Authors of Journal Articles and Conference Presentations. 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022), Granada, Spain, 7-9 September 2022. DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.6960060 [PDF]
  3. Doğan, G., Taşkın, Z., Kulczycki, E., & Pölönen, Janne. (2022). What makes top 20 JIF journals ‘top’?: Exploring characteristics of journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports. 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022), Granada, Spain, 7-9 September 2022. DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.6906891 [PDF]
  4. 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, asi.24706. [DOI] [Preprint] [Link]
  5. Lewandowska, K., Kulczycki, E., & Ochsner, M. (2022). Evaluation of the arts in performance-based research funding systems: An international perspective. Research Evaluation. [DOI] [PDF]
  6. Szadkowski, K., & Krzeski, J. (2021). Conceptualizing capitalist transformations: Marx’s relevance for higher education research. Critique 50(1): 185-203. [DOI] [Link] [Preprint]
  7. Kulczycki, E., Hołowiecki, M., Taşkın, Z., & Doğan, G. (2022). Questionable conferences and presenters from top-ranked universities. Journal of Information Science. [DOI] [PDF]
  8. Taşkın, Z., Taşkın, A., Doğan, G., & Kulczycki, E. (2022). Factors affecting time to publication in information science. Scientometrics, 1-17. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-022-04296-8 [PDF]
  9. Swatek, A. M., Taşkın, Z., & Jackson, N. C. Revisiting “Family Matters”: How Citation Patterns in the Journal of Second Language Writing Reveal the Changing Nature of the Second Language Writing Field and the Decreasing Role of Composition Studies in It. DOI: 10.37514/JWA-J.2022.6.1.06 [PDF]
  10. Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Kulczycki, E., & Żelaźniewicz, A. (2022). The impact of geographical bias when judging scientific studies. Scientometrics. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04176-7 [PDF]
  11. Rodríguez-Fuentes, R. A., & Swatek, A. M. (2022). Exploring the effect of corpus-informed and conventional homework materials on fostering EFL students’ grammatical construction learning. System, 102676. [DOI] [PDF]
  12. Shin, J. Y., Rodríguez-Fuentes, R. A., Swatek, A. M., & Ginther, A. (2022). Aptis test review. Language Testing, 39(1), 172-187. [DOI] [PDF]

2021

  1. 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] [PDF]
  2. 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] [PDF]
  3. Szadkowski, K. & Krzeski, J. (2021). The common good and academic freedom in Poland. Higher Education Quarterly. [DOI] [Preprint]
  4. Szadkowski, K. (2021). The public good and higher education in Poland. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. [DOI] [Preprint]
  5. Krawczyk, S., Szadkowski, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2021). Identifying top researchers in highly metricized academia: Two discursive strategies of senior officials in Poland. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education,1–12. [DOI] [Link] [Preprint]
  6. Kulczycki, E., Kolasa, W.M. & Szadkowski, K. Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin as highly cited researchers? Historical bibliometrics study. Scientometrics 126,8683–8700 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s11192-021-04126-3 [PDF]
  7. Kulczycki, E., Hołowiecki, M., Taşkın, Z., Krawczyk, F. Citation patterns between impact-factor and questionable journals. Scientometrics 126, 8541–8560 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s11192-021-04121-8 [PDF]
  8. Szadkowski, K., Krzeski, J. (2021). The future is always-already now: Instituent praxis and the activist university. Policy Futures in Education. [DOI] [Link]
  9. 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. [DOI] [Link]
  10. 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. [DOI] [PDF]
  11. Taşkın, Z. (2021). Forecasting the future of library and information science and its sub-fields. Scientometrics. [DOI] [PDF]
  12. Petr, M., Engels, T. C., Kulczycki, E., Duskova, M., Guns, R., Sieberova, M., & Sivertsen, G. (2021). Coverage of journal articles in social sciences and humanities in Web of Science and their representation in citation indexes: a comparison of five European countries. PLoS One. [DOI] [PDF]
  13. 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, 102271. [DOI] [PDF]
  14. Korytkowski, P., & Kulczycki, E. (2021). The gap between Plan S requirements and grantees’ publication practices. Journal of Informetrics, 15(2), 101156. [DOI] [PDF]
  15. Lewandowska, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2021). Academic research evaluation in artistic disciplines: The case of Poland. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1–13. [DOI] [PDF]
  16. Pölönen, J., Guns, R., Kulczycki, E., Sivertsen, G., & Engels, T. C. (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. [DOI] [PDF]

2020

  1. Kulczycki, E., Rozkosz, E. A., 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. [DOI] [Link]
  2. 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, 1-33. [DOI] [PDF]
  3. Doğan, G. & Taşkın, Z. (2020). Humanities: The outlier of research assessments. Information (Special issue ICT Enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities), 11(11), 540. [DOI] [PDF]
  4. Taşkın, Z. (2020). TÜBİTAK Türkiye Adresli Uluslararası Bilimsel Yayınları Teşvik Programınca desteklenen dergiler üzerine bir değerlendirme: Yayıncı ülkeler ve disiplin farklılıklarına yakından bakış (An evaluation on journals supported by TÜBİTAK Incentive Program for International Scientific Publications: Closer look at the origins and disciplines of the journals). Türk Kütüphaneciliği (Turkish librarianship), 34(2), 135-159. [DOI] [Link]
  5. Kulczycki, E. (2020). Guns R., Pölönen J., Engels, C. E., Rozkosz E. A., Zuccala A. A., Bruun. K., Eskola, O., Istenič-Starčič, A., Petr, M., Sivertsen, G. Multilingual Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities: A Seven‐Country European Study. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology: asi.24336. [DOI] [PDF]
  6. Kulczycki, E., Korytkowski P. (2020). Researchers publishing monographs are more productive and more local-oriented. Scientometrics. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-020-03376-x [PDF]
  7. 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 Quaterly.1–19. [DOI] [Link]

2019

  1. Szadkowski, K. & Krzeski, J. (2019) In, Against, and Beyond: A Marxist Critique for Higher Education in Crisis, Social Epistemology, 33:6, 463-476. [DOI] [Link]
  2. Giménez-Toledo, E., Mañana-Rodríguez, J., Engels, T. C. E., Guns, R., Kulczycki, E., Ochsner, M., … 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. doi: 10.1007/s11192-018-2956-7 [Link]
  3. Korytkowski, P., & Kulczycki, E. (2019). Examining how country-level science policy shapes publication patterns: The case of Poland. Scientometrics, 119(3), 1519–1543. doi: 10.1007/s11192-019-03092-1 [PDF]
  4. Korytkowski, P., & Kulczycki, E. (2019). Publication counting methods for a national research evaluation exercise. Journal of Informetrics, 13(3), 804-816. [DOI] [PDF]
  5. Kulczycki, E. (2019). Field patterns of scientometric indicators use for presenting research portfolio for assessment. Research Evaluation, 28(2), 169–181. [DOI] [Link]
  6. Kulczycki, E., & Korytkowski, P. (2019). What share of researchers publish monographs? In 17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics: ISSI 2019: With a Special STI Indicators Conference Track: Proceedings (Vol. 1, pp. 179-184). Rome: Edizioni Efesto. [PDF]
  7. 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, 9–30. [DOI] [PDF]
  8. 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. doi: 0.1371/journal.pone.0214423 [PDF]
  9. Pölönen, J., Guns, R., Kulczycki, E., Laakso, M., & Sivertsen, G. (2019). Open access challenge at the national level: comprehensive analysis of publication channels used by Finnish researchers in 2016-2017. In 17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics: ISSI 2019: With a Special STI Indicators Conference Track: Proceedings (Vol. 2, pp. 1776-1787). Rome: Edizioni Efesto. [PDF]
  10. Sivertsen, G., Guns, R., Kulczycki, E., & Pölönen, J. (2019). The use of Gold Open Access in four European countries: An analysis at the level of articles. In17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics: ISSI 2019: With a Special STI Indicators Conference Track: Proceedings (Vol. 2, pp. 1600–1605). Rome: Edizioni Efesto. [PDF]
  11. Szadkowski, K. (2019). An Autonomist Marxist Perspective on Productive and Unproductive Academic Labour. TripleC, 17(1), 111–131. [PDF]
  12. Szadkowski, K. (2019). The Common in Higher Education: A conceptual approach. Higher Education, 78(2), 241–255. doi: 10.1007/s10734-018-0340-4 [PDF]
  13. Vanholsbeeck, M., Demetriou, T., Girkontaite, A., Istenic Starcic, A., Keiski, V., Kulczycki, E., … Vehovec, M. (2019). Senior academics as key negotiators in the implementation of impact policies in the social sciences and humanities. Fteval: Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, 48, 9. doi: 10.22163/fteval.2019.371 [PDF]

2018

  1. 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. doi: 10.1108/AJIM-05-2018-0127 [PDF]
  2. Kulczycki, E. (2018). The diversity of monographs: Changing landscape of book evaluation in Poland. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 70(6), 608–622. doi: 10.1108/AJIM-03-2018-0062 [Link]
  3. Kulczycki, E., Engels, T. C. E., Pölönen, J., Bruun, K., Dušková, M., Guns, R., … Zuccala, A. (2018). Publication patterns in the social sciences and humanities: Evidence from eight European countries. Scientometrics, 116(1), 463-486. doi: 10.1007/s11192-018-2711-0 [PDF]
  4. 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), 60–72. doi: 10.2478/jdis-2018-0021 [PDF]
  5. Ochsner, M., Kulczycki, E., & Gedutis, A. (2018). The Diversity of European Research Evaluation Systems. In R. Costas, T. Franssen, & A. Yegros-Yegros (Eds.), 23rd International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI 2018) (pp. 1235–1241). Leiden: Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS).
  6. Pölönen, J., Auranen, O., Engels, T., & Kulczycki, E. (2018). Taking national language publications into account: The case of the Finnish performance-based research funding system 1. In R. Costas, T. Franssen, & A. Yegros-Yegros (Eds.), 23rd International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI 2018) (pp. 204–211). Leiden: Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS).
  7. Sīle, L., Pölönen, J., Sivertsen, G., Guns, R., Engels, T. C. E. E., Arefiev, P., … Teitelbaum, R. (2018). Comprehensiveness of national bibliographic databases for social sciences and humanities: Findings from a European survey. Research Evaluation, 27(4), 310–322. [DOI] [PDF]

2017

  1. 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. [DOI] [PDF]
  2. Kulczycki, E., Engels, T. C. E., & Nowotniak, R. (2017). Publication patterns in the social sciences and humanities in Flanders and Poland. In 16th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2017) (pp. 95–104). Wuhan: Wuhan University. [URI] [PDF]
  3. Kulczycki, E., Korzeń, M., & Korytkowski, P. (2017). Toward an excellence-based research funding system: Evidence from Poland. Journal of Informetrics, 11(1), 282–298. [DOI] [Link]
  4. 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. doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2017.01.001 [PDF]
  5. Sorokowski, P., Kulczycki, E., Sorokowska, A., & Pisanski, K. (2017). Predatory journals recruit fake editor. Nature, 543, 481-483. doi: 10.1038/543481a [Link]

2016

  1. Kulczycki, E. (2016). Rethinking Open Science: The Role of Communication. Annals of the University of Craiova – Philosophy Series, 37(1), 81–97. URI [PDF]
  2. Szadkowski, K. (2016). Socially necessary impact/time: notes on the acceleration of academic labor, metrics and the transnational association of capitals. Teorie vedy/Theory of Science, 38(1), 53–86. [PDF]
  3. Szadkowski, K. (2016). Towards an Orthodox Marxian Reading of Subsumption(s) of Academic Labour under Capital. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, 28, 9–29. [PDF]

2014

  1. Kulczycki, E. (2014). Communication History and Its Research Subject. Annals of the University of Craiova – Philosophy Series, 33(1), 132–155. [URI] [PDF]
  2. Kulczycki, E. (2014). On the Development of Scholarly Communication: A Philosophical Approach to the Communication History. Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia, 4 (English Edition), 51–63. [URI] [PDF]
  3. Kulczycki, E. (2014). On the philosophical status of the transmission metaphor. Central European Journal of Communication, 7(2), 175–188. [URI] [PDF]
  4. Szadkowski, K. (2014). The Long Shadow of Doctoral Candidate Status: Case Study-Poland. Social Work and Society, 12(2), 1–17. [PDF]