How do early career researchers perceive success in their fields? Report on interviews with humanists, theologians, and scientists-artists in Poland
How do early career researchers perceive success in their fields? Report on interviews with humanists, theologians, and scientists-artists in Poland

Summary/Abstract: Purpose: This paper presents the Polish researchers’ opinions on success perception in science and examines the role of bibliometric and altmetric indices/metrics. It also provides respondents’ statements on how their work is evaluated at Polish universities. Methods: The data come from in-depth interviews (spring 2023) with early career resear- chers in Linguistics, Literary Studies, History, Philosophy, Polish studies, Theology, Arts, Music, Plastic/Fine Arts, and Film.Results: The respondents’ attachment to indices used in the periodical evaluation of scholars at Polish universities, such as the number of publications, ministerial score po- ints, and external grants, was observed. The respondents were critical of citations as the determinant of success. They were generally not very interested in altmetrics.Value: The importance of this research (National Science Centre grant No 2022/45/B/ HS2/00041), which is the Polish continuation of the two international projects (2016–2022), lies mainly in providing a platform to researchers in art and humanities, not included in earlier studies devoted to the sciences and social sciences.

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