Explaining the role of international scholars in semi-peripheries. Evidence from Slovakia

Łuczaj, Kamil; Bahna, Miloslav

doi:10.1080/03075079.2018.1550744

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“…When it comes to winning European grants, especially by experienced scientists, Hungary and the Czech Republic perform better, while Poland is placed at the bottom of the ranking. These results correspond to some extent with those obtained by Luczaj and Bahna (2020), where, according to the data retrieved by them from Eurostat, the share of international researchers in the Czech Republic is 5.48% and in Slovakia is 3.03%, rendering these countries more internationalized than the remaining Visegrád Group countries (Hungary 2.17%, Poland 1.64%). The low ranking of Poland in terms of ERC grants is also reflected in a relatively low impact of Polish researchers in the global context.…”

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Visegrád countries' scientific productivity in the European context: A 10‐year perspective using Web of Science and Scopus

Szuflita-Żurawska

Basińska

2021

Learned Publishing

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Measuring the growth of research productivity is a core element of performance in the higher education sector. This paper aims to analyse the scientific productivity of the Visegrád Group countries (2010–2019) based on data from the Web of Scopus and Scopus databases, as well as data from secondary sources (demographic and socio‐economic factors). Quantitatively, although Poland has the highest output, this is due to its comparative size, whereas output per researcher in Poland is lower than in other Visegrád Four (V4) countries. As regards the qualitative approach, Hungary and the Czech Republic are significantly more effective in terms of scientific collaboration and receive a greater number of European Research Council grants. Thus, bibliometric data in relation to cross‐country characteristic indicators (socio‐economic variables including expenditure on science and having prestigious universities) are related to the positions of the V4 countries. Practical implications suggest that university management within the Visegrád Group must develop and continue strategies to strengthen international collaboration between researchers in order to accelerate change in the dissemination of scientific output at the global level. Academic scholarly publishers may benefit from publishing research on specific issues important to different regions of the world in order to expand their audience and gain new potential resources.

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Visegrád countries' scientific productivity in the European context: A 10‐year perspective using Web of Science and Scopus

Szuflita-Żurawska

Basińska

2021

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“…These findings corroborate the main conclusion from the study of foreign-born academics at Slovak and Polish universities. These studies showed the negative relationship between indicators of institutional prestige (PhD-granting rights, location in a big city, position in the local ranking) and the inflow of foreign-born employees (Luczaj and Bahna, 2020;Luczaj and Bahna, 2021). This motivation, however, seems contradictory to all the above-mentioned narratives, which emphasised that what counts for the administrators is the quality of teaching or research.…”

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Institutional motivations for hiring international academics in Poland

Łuczaj

Kurek-Ochmańska

2021

IJEM

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to uncover the basic motivations of the administrators (referred to also as “managers”) to hire foreign-born employees in the academic system, which is relatively ethnically homogenous and where the proficiency in Polish is still a strong asset. By doing this, the authors make an attempt to theorise the value of internationalisation of higher education in the academic peripheries.Design/methodology/approachThis study reports the finding of 20 qualitative interviews with the deans and other senior academic officials serving managerial functions at Polish public and private universities.FindingsThe four basic motivations expressed directly by the mangers were (1) the crave for cultural diversity, (2) willingness to “Westernize” the academe, (3) a need for academic achievement and (4) staff shortages. In the discussion, the authors show, however, that the discursive order of these institutional motivations to hire international faculty is incompatible with motivations of international faculty to seek employment in Poland and statistical data regarding their concentration in different academic centres.Originality/valueThe paper tackles crucial issues regarding staffing (including recruitment and retention) and diversity hiring in a country with an “emigration culture”, similar to other East European states, namely a place from which highly skilled workers emigrate. A relocation to Poland is a rather unusual reverse migration, or “stepping down”, to a periphery to use it as a possible stepping stone for career progression.

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“…In addition, the precarity created by neoliberal policies and the increased competition within the academy in these countries caused many academics to gravitate towards new fields for work (Burford et al, 2019). In their new search, the first countries that academics tend to move to are the ones that are within the circle of developed countries (Knight, 2006;Luczaj and Bahna, 2018). Academics' tendency to also gather in specific locations (Arslan, 2017) within these countries again brings about the need to focus on their location choice based on different levels (macro, meso, micro).…”

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“…In fact, with the spread of academic mobility in the countries nearby, studies related to academic mobility have also appeared in these countries. These studies include some findings which show that the employment of foreign academics, the advantages of which are constantly being expressed, does not actually provide advantages as much as expected (Luczaj and Bahna, 2018). Therefore, it is necessary to examine these mobilities in order to understand why they have not had the same effect in the new destinations they have spread whereas they were taken into prominence due to their benefits in central countries.…”

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Turkey is a Paradise for Foreign Academics Who Have No Better Place to Go’: The structure of transnational academic mobility towards Turkey

Denız

2020

Türk Coğrafya Dergisi

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Transnational academic mobilities are on the rise globally. While most of these mobilities are directed towards developed countries, it is seen in recent years that the number of academics who have moved to developing countries increased also. One of these countries is Turkey. This study discusses the socio-spatial pattern of transnational academic mobility in Turkey. This discussion is divided into these four themes which were put forward by Terri Kim ( 2009) in order to understand the pattern of transnational academic mobility: Who moves ( 1), what kind of knowledge they act on (2), where they move ( 3) and what affects these mobilities (4). Information obtained from CoHE (the Council of Higher Education in Turkey), curriculum vitae of academics and in-depth interviews with academics were used within the scope of the study. The findings of the study showed that in most universities, nationality, religion and gender are taken into consideration before the qualification of foreign academics. In general, those who come from developed countries are employed by private universities whereas those who come from countries that are less developed than Turkey are employed by public universities. Most of the academics are employed in temporary positions and the academic expectation from them are limited to the lectures. This situation changes the transnationalization of higher education by employing foreign academics (macro level); increases the attractiveness of Turkey for the academics who are under the stress of academic performance (meso level) and causes it to become ethnic clustering in many cities (micro level).

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Explaining the role of international scholars in semi-peripheries. Evidence from Slovakia

Cited by 16 publications

References 31 publications

Visegrád countries' scientific productivity in the European context: A 10‐year perspective using Web of Science and Scopus

Visegrád countries' scientific productivity in the European context: A 10‐year perspective using Web of Science and Scopus

Institutional motivations for hiring international academics in Poland

Turkey is a Paradise for Foreign Academics Who Have No Better Place to Go’: The structure of transnational academic mobility towards Turkey

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