2018
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2644-7
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High research productivity in vertically undifferentiated higher education systems: Who are the top performers?

Abstract: The growing scholarly interest in research top performers comes from the growing policy interest in research top performance itself. A question emerges: what makes someone a top performer? In this paper, the upper 10% of Polish academics in terms of research productivity are studied, and predictors of entering this class are sought. In the science system (and Poland follows global patterns), a small number of scholars produce most of the works and attract huge numbers of citations. Performance determines rewar… Show more

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“…Rather than a Gaussian (normal) distribution, individual performance in science tends to follow a Paretian (power law) distribution (O'Boyle & Aguinis, ). In general, social phenomena such as income, wealth and price show ‘strong skewness with long tail on the right, implying inequality’ (Abramo, D'Angelo, & Soldatenkova, , p. 324), and academic knowledge production is no exception (Kwiek, ).…”
Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rather than a Gaussian (normal) distribution, individual performance in science tends to follow a Paretian (power law) distribution (O'Boyle & Aguinis, ). In general, social phenomena such as income, wealth and price show ‘strong skewness with long tail on the right, implying inequality’ (Abramo, D'Angelo, & Soldatenkova, , p. 324), and academic knowledge production is no exception (Kwiek, ).…”
Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is quasi-market resource allocation for academic units in which they compete for a stable am ount of funding available on a yearly basis. Detailed bibliometric assessments of individual academics and academic units, performed through a point system linked to a ranking list of academic journals, increasingly determine the level of financial resources available (Kwiek 2018b).…”
Section: Corporatizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Europe, Poland is among those countries with the lowest share of internationalists. In a recent study of 11 countries, the mean share of internationalists among European scientists employed full-time in the university sector was 63.8% (Kwiek 2018b); in Poland, internationalists account for just 51.4%. As measured by a proxy of internationally co-authored publications, Poland had the lowest level of research internationalization in the European Union in 2018 (35.8% based on Scopus data).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 98%