Object's details: Gaming with Science? Review: Kulczycki, E. (2023). Evaluation Game. How Publication Metrics Shape Scholarly Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, viii+228 pp.

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Title:
Gaming with Science? Review: Kulczycki, E. (2023). Evaluation Game. How Publication Metrics Shape Scholarly Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, viii+228 pp.
Creator:
Płuciennik, Jarosław;
Zatora, Anna
Contributor:
University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Institute of Contemporary Culture, Department of Literary Theory;
Jarosław Płuciennik – professor of humanities specialising in cognitive analysis, cultural studies and literary theory. He works as a professor at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Lodz at the Institute of Contemporary Culture. From 2012 to 2016, he served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lodz and then as the Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Open Educational Resources until 2020. He has conducted research in Europe, including at Lund University and Cambridge University, and has participated in numerous Erasmus projects. He has published eight books, edited more than a dozen and is the author of more than 180 scientific articles.;
Anna Zatora – professionally connected with the Department of Theory of Literature at the University of Lodz and the scientific journal ‘Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich’ and the Library of the University of Lodz. A graduate in philology and cultural studies, she received her doctoral degree in the discipline of literary studies in 2021. She has published, among others, the book: Family saga in 21st century Polish literature. Convention or contestation? (2022) and an article in „Przegląd Biblioteczny” (2024): The role of librarians in university activities related to the problem of unethical publishing practices on the example of solutions applied at the University of Lodz (case study). He is involved in research on cultural texts, institutional repositories and observing the development of the idea of open science in Poland.;
jaroslaw.pluciennik@uni.lodz.pl;
anna.zatora@lib.uni.lodz.pl
Description:
This review critically examines Emanuel Kulczycki’s monograph Evaluation Game. How Publication Metrics Shape Scholarly Communication (Cambridge University Press, 2023), a reflective and historically grounded study of research evaluation systems in Poland and globally. The authors analyze how the rhetoric and practice of “excellence” have become institutionalized in science policy, particularly in Poland, and evaluate Kulczycki’s autoethnographic, text-oriented approach to scientometrics. While appreciating the book’s narrative power—especially its use of case studies and the central metaphor of the “game”—the reviewers question its empirical grounding, conceptual framing, and the absence of key theoretical frameworks such as Wittgenstein’s language games or Kuhn’s paradigms. They note that the book reads more as a metascientific manifesto than a sociological study. The review closes with a critique of recent Polish science policy reforms, contextualizing Kulczycki’s work within broader concerns about power, truth, and the bureaucratization of knowledge.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe;
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Date:
2025.04.01;
2025
Type:
Article;
Other
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie
Relation:
Perspektywy Kultury;1;
48
Subject:
Emanuel Kulczycki;
scholarly communication in Poland;
review;
science;
academia;
culture of science;
university culture;
metrics;
games;
game theory
Identifier:
Płuciennik, J. and Zatora, A. 2025. Gaming with Science? Review: Kulczycki, E. (2023). Evaluation Game. How Publication Metrics Shape Scholarly Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, viii+228 pp. Perspectives on Culture. 48, 1 (Apr. 2024), 371-378. DOI:https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2025.4801.22.;
2081-1446;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/55141 ;
2719-8014;
10.35765/pk.2025.4801.22
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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