The Evaluation Game

Emanuel Kulczycki is Associate Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and Head of the Scholarly Communication Research Group. From 2018 to 2020, he was the chair of the European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, and in 2019 he co-founded the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication. He has been a policy advisor for the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland since 2013. He co-edited the Handbook on Research Assessment in the Social Sciences (2022, Edward Elgar Publishing).

• Introduction; 1. Evaluation as power; 2. Economization and metricization; 3. Untold histories of research evaluation; 4. The diversity of evaluative powers; 5. Players and the stakes; 6. Playing the evaluation game; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Index.

'Research evaluation has taken very different forms under different bureaucracies and political systems. Kulczycki makes a unique contribution by explaining some 'untold histories of research evaluation' from Eastern Europe and comparing metric-based evaluation models under socialist and neoliberal regimes.' Ismael Rafols, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden