I am a social scientist and Head of the Research System and Science Dynamics Department at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) in Berlin, as well as Full Professor (W3) of Science Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
My research examines how scholarly communication and research evaluation systems shape knowledge production, academic practices, and the governance of science. I focus in particular on scientometrics, multilingual scholarly publishing, and predatory publishing.
My work draws on the science of science, sociology of science, science and technology studies (STS), research evaluation studies, and bibliometrics. Alongside academic research, I am actively engaged in science policy and research assessment reform. I have co-chaired CoARA’s Working Group on Multilingualism and language biases in research assessment (2023–2025), co-founded the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication (2019), chaired ENRESSH (2016–2020), and served as an advisor to the Polish Ministry of Science (2013–2024).
Previously, I held academic positions at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin.
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New Book Project
I have recently completed a new monograph, The Collective Scientometrics: Why We Need a New Way to Measure Science, which develops a theoretical and historical framework for rethinking how we quantify scientific work, shifting the focus from individual researchers to research groups and thought collectives. The manuscript is currently being prepared for submission to an academic publisher. It builds on archival research and introduces a set of conceptual tools for designing collective-oriented scientometric indicators.
The Evaluation Game
In The Evaluation Game: How Publication Metrics Shape Scholarly Communication, published by Cambridge University Press (April 2023), I provide a comprehensive account of the transformations in scholarly communication generated by research evaluation systems. The book proposes a fundamental rethinking of the values that drive academia while presenting the first historical account of research evaluation systems in the East, tracing their roots back to the modernization of Russia. By discussing two distinct trajectories of modernization and metricization – socialist and capitalist – the work allows readers to understand why researchers in different regions react differently to research evaluation mechanisms.