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Emanuel Kulczycki

Prof. Dr. Emanuel Kulczycki

Research Area Research System and Science Dynamics
Head of Department
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Emanuel Kulczycki is head of the Research Area “Research System and Science Dynamics” at DZHW. He also holds the W3 Professorship in Science Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

He received his habilitation in philosophy from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2016 and his doctoral degree in philosophy from the same institution in 2011. He studied philosophy and communication at Adam Mickiewicz University and has held professorial positions in philosophy (Adam Mickiewicz University) and computer science (West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin). Before joining DZHW in February 2026, from 2016 to January 2026, he led the Scholarly Communication Research Group at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

His research focuses on scholarly communication, research evaluation systems, scientometrics, multilingual publishing, and predatory publishing. He is actively engaged in science policy, having chaired ENRESSH (2016–2020), co-founded the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism (2019), and co-chaired CoARA’s Working Group on Language Biases (2023–2025).

More information on his research and publications is available at emanuelkulczycki.com.

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Academic research fields

Scholarly communication, research evaluation systems, scientometrics, multilingual publishing, predatory publishing, science of science, bibliometrics

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Predatory Publishing Practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems?
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Publications

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Limited western circulation of Soviet scientometrics: the case of Naukometriya.

Kwiecień, K., Kislenko, I., & Kulczycki, E. (2026).
Limited western circulation of Soviet scientometrics: the case of Naukometriya. Scientometrics, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05786-9
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Co-authored by Vasily Nalimov and Zinaida Mulchenko, Naukometriya (1969) introduced the term that came to name the field of scientometrics. However, the book itself had limited impact on the development of the field outside the Eastern Bloc. This paper examines how problems of translation shaped the global circulation of one of scientometrics’ foundational texts. We reconstruct the history of the book’s only English version, a 1971 machine translation produced with the Systran system for the U.S. Air Force, and assess its quality using the Multidimensional Quality Metrics framework.

Western influence or local efforts? John Bernal and the Soviet organization of scientific information.

Kislenko, I., & Kulczycki, E. (2026).
Western influence or local efforts? John Bernal and the Soviet organization of scientific information. Journal of Documentation, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2026-0158
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This paper examines the relationship between John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) and the Soviet approach to organize scientific information, focussing on the establishment of the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (VINITI).

Studying ‘predatory publishing’ in the context of research evaluation: conceptual and methodological challenges.

Stephen, D., Cramer, M., Kulczycki, E., Reinhart, M., Vasen, F., ... & Drymioti, M. (2026).
Studying ‘predatory publishing’ in the context of research evaluation: conceptual and methodological challenges. Research Evaluation, 2026 (online first). https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvag025

Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe.

Kulczycki, E., Alonso-Gamboa, J. O., Beigel, F., Digiampietr, L., Laakso, M., ... & Vélez Cuartas, G. (2026).
Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. Journal of Data and Information Science. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/jdis-2025-0440/pdf?licenseType=open-access (Abgerufen am: 03.06.2026) (online first).
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This study investigates the diversity of national scholarly journal publishing ecosystems in seven countries across Europe and Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Finland, Mexico, Poland, and Türkiye. It challenges the common perception that global scholarly publishing is dominated by international commercial publishers by examining national publishing structures beyond English speaking contexts.
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Pickpockets, murderers, or even the wrongly accused: How many and what type of questionable journals are in OpenAlex?

Stephen, D., Faria, R., & Kulczycki, E. (2026, Mai).
Pickpockets, murderers, or even the wrongly accused: How many and what type of questionable journals are in OpenAlex? Vortrag auf der Konferenz 9th World Conference on Research Integrity, Vancouver, Canada.

Geopolitics of scholarly publishing system.

Kulczycki, E. (2026, April).
Geopolitics of scholarly publishing system. Impulsvortrag auf der Konferenz Preventing Questionable Publishing Practices, Hacettepe University, Department of Information Management, Ankara, Türkiye.
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Dimity Stephen

Dr. Dimity Stephen