Autorentext
Emanuel Kulczycki is Associate Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna, 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).

Zusammenfassung
This text provides a detailed introduction to the origin and development of publication metrics used to measure academic productivity across the world, and the effect they have upon the quality and diversity of scientific research.