Objective Globally, interest in excellence has grown exponentially, with public and private
institutions shifting their attention from meeting targets to achieving excellence. Centres of …

As the open access movement has gained widespread popularity in the scientific
community, academic publishers have gradually adapted to the new environment. The …

This country case study describes how science policy instruments are designed to shape
publication patterns and identifies the changes in researchers' productivity that can be …

This article explores the implications of political-historical relations and research evaluation
policies for the use of nationally oriented journals in 28 post-socialist countries. The study …

Education policies can be understood as discursive strategies often used to foreground
political ideologies and shape pedagogic practice. This chapter focuses on the ways in …

The notion of 'excellence'has become an increasingly important part of the research
ecosystem over the last 20 years (OECD 2014). Initiatives like the UK's Research Excellence …

Since 2011, in Kazakhstan, one of the main indicators for assessing the effectiveness of
researchers is their publication activity in journals indexed by Scopus. The policy …

Soviet higher education had a distinctive institutional landscape. It combined two
institutional types in a uniform model that embedded higher education in the national …

The study investigates the reforms of university governing boards in Hungary and Poland. It
seeks to fill that void and advance existing knowledge about the implementation of boards …

Aware of the growing importance of global rankings, universities aim to enhance their
positions. However, the exact relation between research productivity and ranking positions …