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Item Academic top earners. Research productivity, prestige generation, and salary patterns in European universities(2018-03-11) Kwiek, MarekThis article examines highly paid academics—or top earners—employed across universities in ten European countries based on large-scale international survey data regarding the academic profession. It examines the relationships between salaries and academic behaviors and productivity, as well as the predictors of becoming an academic top earner. While, in the Anglo-Saxon countries, the university research mission typically pays off at an individual level, in Continental Europe, it pays off only in combination with administrative and related duties. Seeking future financial rewards solely through research does not seem to be a viable strategy in Europe, but seeking satisfaction in research through solving research puzzles is also becoming difficult, with the growing emphasis on the ‘relevance’ and ‘applicability’ of fundable research. Thus, both the traditional ‘investment motivation’ and ‘consumption motivation’ to perform research decrease, creating severe policy implications. The primary data come from 8,466 usable cases.Item Internationalists and Locals: International Research Collaboration in a Resource-Poor System(2020) Kwiek, MarekThe principal distinction drawn in this study is between research “internationalists” and “locals.” The former are scientists involved in international research collaboration while the latter group are not. These two distinct types of scientist compete for academic prestige, research funding, and international recognition. International research collaboration proves to be a powerful stratifying force. As a clearly defined subgroup, internationalists are a different academic species, accounting for 51.4% of Polish scientists; predominantly male and older, they have longer academic experience and higher academic degrees and occupy higher academic positions. Across all academic clusters, internationalists consistently produce more than 90% of internationally co-authored publications, representing 2,320% of locals’ productivity for peer-reviewed articles and 1,600% for peer-reviewed article equivalents. Internationalists tend to spend less time than locals on teaching-related activities, more time on research, and more time on administrative duties. Based on a large-scale academic survey (N = 3,704), some new predictors of international research collaboration were identified by multivariate analyses. The findings have global policy implications for resource-poor science systems “playing catch-up” in terms of academic careers, productivity patterns, and research internationalization policies.Item Publish or Perish? The Highly Productive Research Elite in European Universities from a Comparative Quantitative Perspective(2016) Kwiek, MarekResearch in higher education has consistently shown that some academics publish a lot, while others publish at moderate rates or not at all. Institutional reward and promotion structures have always been focused on research achievements — that is, on publications, and academic prestige comes almost exclusively from research. As shown over the decades by Alfred Lotka, Derek de Solla Price, Robert K. Merton, Jonathan R. and Stephen Cole, Paula Stephan, and Philip G. Altbach, among many others, the majority of university research production comes from a minority of highly productive academics. Literature identifies a number of individual and institutional factors that influence research productivity, including size of the department, disciplinary norms, reward and prestige systems, and individual-level psychological constructs such as a desire for an intrinsic reward of puzzle-solving. Faculty orientation towards research is generally believed to predict higher research productivity; so are: the time spent on research, being a male, faculty collaboration, faculty academic training, years passed since PhD completion, as well as a cooperative climate and support at the institutional level. The “publish or perish” theme refers to both research non-performers (or non-publishers) and top performers. Here we shall focus on high research performance and its correlates from a comparative European perspective.