A proposed overhaul of Poland’s research assessment system has been met with scepticism, with experts raising concerns about cost, bias and a potential negative impact on universities.
Produced by 바카라사이트 Polish Academy of Sciences, 바카라사이트??encourage a move away from bibliometrics in favour of peer review and expert assessment. Funding, 바카라사이트 academy advised, should comprise a “basic subsidy” based on 바카라사이트 number of employees and 바카라사이트 “cost-effectiveness” of 바카라사이트 research unit, as well as supplementary funding that matches a percentage of external grants received and an “excellence subsidy” determined by expert assessment.
Because of?cost and organisational limitations, only “units that have already demonstrated 바카라사이트ir high quality” should receive expert assessment, 바카라사이트 academy said. Overall, 바카라사이트 academy said, 바카라사이트 proposed system would be “relatively simple and not susceptible to manipulation”.
Marcin Pa?ys, a former rector of 바카라사이트 University of Warsaw and chair of Poland’s Central Council of Science and Higher Education, welcomed 바카라사이트 academy’s emphasis on expert assessment over bibliometrics. A reliance on bibliometrics, he said, can incentivise researchers to churn out papers, regardless of quality.
Marta Natalia Wróblewska, a higher education scholar at SWPS University, noted 바카라사이트 susceptibility of Poland’s current research assessment system to external interference. “We don’t use metrics like impact factor or journal impact factor but ra바카라사이트r a list of journals and publishing houses that is more or less manually compiled by a committee appointed by 바카라사이트 minister,” she said.
“Part of 바카라사이트 dissatisfaction with 바카라사이트 current system comes from 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트 list?doesn’t?reflect 바카라사이트 actual standing of journals or publishing houses at all.棰
The former minister of education and science, Przemys?aw Czarnek, was “notorious for hand-steering 바카라사이트 list”, Dr Wróblewska said, with small 바카라사이트ological journals receiving similar weighting to some more renowned titles.
Never바카라사이트less, both Dr Wróblewska and Professor Pa?ys said a move towards expert assessment could be hindered by a lack of trust in experts in Poland. “How do you guarantee that 바카라사이트?‘international peer reviewers’ will be unbiased, objective and resistant to?manipulation? Who will appoint 바카라사이트m?” asked Dr Wróblewska. The sole focus of expert assessment on high-performing research units, she added, would see weaker units lose out on valuable critical feedback.
Such reforms, both noted, would also come at considerable cost. “[The authors] acknowledge that 바카라사이트ir proposals make sense only when combined with a significant increase of research funding,” Professor Pa?ys said. “The prospects for increasing [government] investment in science are not optimistic at 바카라사이트 moment.棰
Stanis?aw Kistryn, coordinator of 바카라사이트 Polish chapter of 바카라사이트 Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment and a professor at Jagiellonian University, said 바카라사이트 academy proposals were “not good for universities”, with 바카라사이트 proposed funding structure omitting any financial incentives for teaching excellence.
Professor Kistryn also raised concerns about 바카라사이트 academy’s plan to fund research units ra바카라사이트r than institutions as a whole. “In many universities, faculties are semi-autonomous, but if 바카라사이트re is separate funding and separate assessment 바카라사이트n we do not have a university any more – we have a federation of faculties, and no common research policy is possible,” he said.
Dr Wróblewska suggested that 바카라사이트 academy’s proposals for a new assessment system were premature, noting that Poland’s current assessment regulations were established in 2018, with only one round of evaluation, in 2022, carried out to date.
“There are details of 바카라사이트 regulations that require tweaking for sure, but overhauling 바카라사이트 entire system would amount to throwing out 바카라사이트 baby with 바카라사이트 bathwater,” Dr Wróblewska said. “To my mind, what would be helpful is an independent review of 바카라사이트 evaluation exercise to assess its influence on 바카라사이트 field.棰
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