Niezamierzone konsekwencje punktozy jako wartości kulturowej polskiej społeczności akademickiej
Unintended Consequences of „Pointosis” as a Cultural Value of the Polish Academic Community

Summary/Abstract: The article formulates a hypothesis that “pointosis” is a contemporary challenge for the Polish academic community. “Pointosis” is a cultural value that holds that publishing and collecting points for scientific publications are important goals of academic work. Being an element of the axio-normative system, this value is a rule that sets norms and shapes the members’ of the academic community behavior. It also has many unintended negative consequences. Pointosis generates inaccurate and unreliable evaluations of scholarly work. Pointosis might negatively affect the health of scholars, it reduces the quality of the research process and, counter-intuitively, does not increase the motivation to improve the quality and robustness of research endeavors. We propose that the improvement of the quality of science will not occur through changing the principles of evaluating scholars but only through changing the underlying cultural value that treats publications as the primary goal of academic work.

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