Publication Effectiveness of Academia Employees in Poland: A Case Study

Abstract

Eff ectiveness in publishing is currently the most important criterion in the process of the evaluation of scientifi c and research units in Poland. In the national evaluations system for such units, this criterion has the largest relative impact on their fi nal assessment and rating, on the basis of which, in turn, fi nancial resources are allocated. Th e key question in this context was what factors are correlated with publication eff ectiveness of employees in the domain of science? Th e aim of the analysis was to determine correlations between selected factors such as an employee's academic title and position in a scientifi c unit's hierarchy or their teaching load and their scientifi c eff ectiveness as measured by publications. Th e study was conducted on the entire staff population of the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. As a result, it was found that the selected factors only to a marginal degree were correlated with publication eff ectiveness in the group studied.