Adam Ploszaj- PhD
- Professor (Assistant) at University of Warsaw
Adam Ploszaj
- PhD
- Professor (Assistant) at University of Warsaw
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Introduction
Research interests: regional and local development, R&D policy, scientometrics, science of science, design and evaluation of public policies.
Methods and techniques: quantitative science studies, quasi-experimental metods, mixed-mode designs, big data and machine learning.
I lead the newly established Science Studies Lab at the University of Warsaw.
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August 2016 - December 2016
January 2006 - present
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Publications (153)
This article analyzes the impact of the availability of long-haul flights on international scientific collaboration. The background assumption is that a wider availability of long-distance flights enables greater mobility for scientists, which in turn increases the likelihood of long-distance research collaboration. The analytical framework of this...
This study investigates the patterns and determinants of international academic mobility among Polish scholars, focusing on short- and mid-term mobility activities such as attending conferences, project meetings, and professional training, conducting research, and lecturing. Utilizing a representative random sample survey of scholars employed in re...
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns w...
The underrepresentation of women in academic conferences is an underexplored aspect of gender disparity in science. This study aims to expand knowledge on this issue by investigating whether the virtualization of academic conferences in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the gender structure of conference participants. We explored this quest...
Science is increasingly defined by multidimensional collaborative networks. Despite the unprecedented growth of scientific collaboration around the globe—the collaborative turn—geography still matters for the cognitive enterprise. The spatial location and distance between scholars and research organisations affect their likelihood to collaborate an...
This 68-country survey (n = 71,922) examines how people encounter information about science and communicate about it with others, identifies cross-country differences, and tests the extent to which economic and sociopolitical conditions predict such differences. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most coun...
Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus acros...
Two years ago the publication of the monograph The Geography of Scientific Collaboration the authors discuss what issues would have been addressed if the book was written today. Three interrelated matters come up front. The first is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific collaboration in both positive and negative ways, also from the geo...
This study investigates whether the virtualization of academic conferences in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the gender structure of conference participants. We explored this question utilizing authorship data from the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index for 180 conferences in 30 conference series held between 2017 and 2...
Objective. This study reviews the literature on virtual academic conferences, which have gained significant attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Design. We conducted a scoping review, analyzing 147 documents available up to October 5th, 2021. We categorized this literature, identified main themes, examined theoretical approaches, evaluated empir...
Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment may challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science society nexus across different cultural contexts,...
IMAJINE: Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe: D8.2 Policy Report on the Relational Qualities of Spatial Justice
The COVID-19 crisis has forced us to rethink how and where we should live our lives. Moreover, with the land development system now on hold in most parts of Europe, a unique window of opportunity has opened up to question whether this system is capable of delivering the natural and built environment we want for ourselves and for our children. Do we...
This report on the case study of PL-ITI presents a synthesis of all three outputs in order.
This report on the case study of SE-Stockholm presents a synthesis of all three outputs in order. It is structured as follows. This introductory section provides a summary of the main characteristics of the case study (Section 1.1), the scale of analysis (Section 1.2) and geographical scope (Section 1.3). Section 2 contextualizes how urbanization o...
This paper analyzes the impact of air transport connectivity and accessibility on scientific collaboration. Numerous studies demonstrated that the likelihood of collaboration declines with increase in distance between potential collaborators. These works commonly use simple measures of physical distance rather than actual flight capacity and freque...
Evaluation of the ERA-NET instrument under the project “Evaluation of the impact of selected measures of axis IV of Smart Growth Operational Programme and selected EC programs on the development of scientific units, stimulation of cooperation and commercialization, the development of R&D staff, the internationalization of Polish science, and the po...
Ex-ante evaluation of Development Strategy for the Lodz Voivodship 2030 (regional development strategy). Evaluation commissioned by the Marshal's Office of the Lodz Voivodship
Celem badania była ocena pierwszych efektów wsparcia udzielonego w ramach PO IR w zakresie realizacji prac B+R oraz w zakresie wdrożeń w przedsiębiorstwach. Przedmiot badania stanowiły wybrane instrumenty wsparcia pierwszej, drugiej i trzeciej osi priorytetowej PO IR. W badaniu wykorzystano takie metody jak: analiza danych zastanych (m.in. dane z s...
Quasi-experimental evaluation of LIDER programme (large grants for early career researchers) commissioned by the National Centre for Research and Development
Mid-term evaluation of the progress of the Smart Growth Operational Program 2014-2020
Assessment of the relevance of R&D support under the Regional Operational Program of the Lodz Voivodship 2014-2020. Report commissioned by the Office of the Marshal of the Lodzkie Voivodeship
Evaluation of activities to strengthen scientific research, technological development and innovation under the first priority axis of the Regional Operational Program of the Malopolska Voivodship for the years 2014-2020. Report commissioned by the Office of the Marshal of the Malopolska Voivodeship
Analysis of the innovative potential of Mazovieckie Voivodeship in national and international perspective. Report commissioned by the Office of the Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship
This paper analyzes the impact of air transport connectivity and accessibility on scientific collaboration. Numerous studies demonstrated that the likelihood of collaboration declines with increase in distance between potential collaborators. These works commonly use simple measures of physical distance rather than actual flight capacity and freque...
The paper investigates core-periphery relations in the network of international scientific collaboration. We hypothesise that benefits from collaboration depend, ceteris paribus, on roles played by collaborators in the given collaboration. To capture the impact of various roles, we compare mean citation of collaborative papers in which authors from...
Przedmiotem badań przedstawionych w artykule były wzajemne relacje między jakością rządzenia a wdrażaniem unijnej polityki spójności w różnych kontekstach regionalnych. Badania pokazały dość wyraźne odmienności pod tym względem między regionami realizującymi cel „konwergencja” i regionami, w których obrano za cel „konkurencyjność i zatrudnienie”. J...
Evaluation of the implementation of the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) instrument in the EU financial perspective for 2014-2020. Research commissioned by the Ministry of Development
Celem oceny ex-ante projektu Strategii Rozwoju Województwa Zachodniopomorskiego do roku 2030 było:
1. Zbadanie kompletności projektu Strategii, w tym określenie niezbędnego zakresu uzupełnień w kontekście poprawy jakości proponowanego modelu programowania rozwoju;
2. Ocena trafności projektu Strategii, tj. identyfikacji wyzwań / potrzeb / problemów...
Half a century of centrally planned policy in the Central and Eastern European countries resulted in outdated technologies, inefficient allocation of resources and low productivity. Following the end of communism there was a fifteen year process of transition which ended in 2004 with eight post-communist countries joining the European Union (EU) of...
W ostatnich dziesięcioleciach nastąpiła bezprecedensowa intensyfikacja różnych wymiarów współpracy naukowej. W Polsce skala współpracy, zwłaszcza zagranicznej, jest wyraźnie niższa niż w większości krajów europejskich. Celem artykułu jest analiza mechanizmów i preferencji w zakresie nawiązywania współpracy naukowej przez polskich naukowców. Wykorzy...
The aim of the report is to review the available data of cohesion policy implementation and performance and to conduct analysis on spatial differentiation patterns at the regional level. The report consists of two parts. The first part reviews existing data sources and assesses the spatial and thematic coverage and quality of the data. The second p...
Głównym celem artykułu jest próba oceny, czy współpraca naukowa jest istotną składową regionalnego potencjału innowacyjnego. W pierwszej części, na podstawie przeglądu literatury, przedstawiono wstępną operacjonalizację najważniejszych elementów składowych potencjału innowacyjnego. Ich empirycznej weryfikacji dokonano za pomocą analizy czynnikowej....
The aim of the report is to review the available data of cohesion policy implementation and performance and to conduct analysis on spatial differentiation patterns at the regional level. The report consists of two parts. The first part reviews existing data sources and assesses the spatial and thematic coverage and quality of the data. The second p...
The paper investigates impact of several scenarios of increasing investments in R&D in Poland with use of a regional CGE model for Poland. The Europe 2020 strategy sets the target of increasing combined public and private investment in R&D to achieve a level of 3 % of R&D in EU's GDP by 2020. Currently it is 2.1% of GDP on average in the EU, and in...
The purpose of the paper is to provide a systematic insight into the state of the art in the regional (sub-national) input-output analyses. Large and growing body of scientific literature in the field is very diverse, fragmented and challenging to comprehend mostly because it is usually published as articles, not only in the field specific journals...
w: D. Celińska-Janowicz, A. Płoszaj (red.) Rozwój lokalny w turbulentnym otoczeniu: mazowieckie samorządy wobec wyzwań adaptacyjności. Warszawa: MGG Conferences. ISBN 9788363557485 Copyright: Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska Preferowany sposób cytowania: Płoszaj Adam (2015) Adaptacyjność na poziomie lokalnym –...
This paper explores the development of the science sector in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and convergence with ‘old’ European Union countries. The aim is to better understand the observed development processes in the science sector in CEE by the use of data concerning research outcomes in the form of articles indexed in the Web of S...
In order to face the challenge of effective organizational learning in our public policies, we need to address three pressing questions:
1. How does learning work in our public organizations?
2. What promising practices can we implement to advance learning in public organizations?
3. What changes in public management are required to combine learnin...
Widzieliśmy wiele strategii i planów, których główną funkcją było niczym niezakłócone zaleganie w gabinetach decydentów i resortowych składzikach. Potrzebujemy innej polityki miejskiej: polityki rozumianej jako skoordynowane działania centralnych władz zmierzające do realizacji ustalonych celów za pomocą określonych środków. Bo polityka to działani...
Celem badania ewaluacyjnego była odpowiedź na trzy kluczowe pytania badawcze:
1. Jak definiujemy pojęcia komplementarności, synergii?
2. Jaki jest faktyczny stan wdrażania zasady komplementarności w odniesieniu do Programów Operacyjnych 2007‑2013 oraz PROW?
3. Jakie mechanizmy zapewnienia komplementarności można zastosować – sugestie i rekomendacje...
Opracowanie jest zbiorem podstawowych informacji z wybranych międzynarodowych rankingów miast, w których uwzględniana jest Warszawa. Powstało ono w celu syntetycznego pokazania miejsca stolicy Polski w skali międzynarodowej. Patrzenie na Warszawę przez pryzmat rankingów nie tylko pozwala na porównanie jej stanu z innymi miastami, ale także pokazuje...
Pierwsza dekada XXI wieku to okres bezprecedensowego rozwoju instytucji otoczenia biznesu w Polsce. W całym kraju powstawały nowe parki technologiczne, inkubatory przedsiębiorczości, centra transferu technologii, fundusze pożyczkowe, ośrodki szkoleniowo-doradcze. Towarzyszyło temu przekonanie, że te różne podmioty muszą ze sobą współpracować, aby d...
Publikacja odpowiada na pytanie: Jaki jest mechanizm uczenia się organizacji publicznych? Opierając się na szeroko zakrojonym przeglądzie wcześniejszych studiów międzynarodowych oraz wynikach własnych, autorskich badań wykonanych w polskich ministerstwach i ich zagranicznych odpowiednikach, autorzy wyjaśniają procesy i czynniki napędzające organiza...
The aim of this book is to enrich current evaluation of the Structural Funds in the field of regional development by connecting it with the advances in contemporary international practices of evaluation. We strongly believe that evaluation studies are one of the key feedback mechanisms in modern public policy. They help us reflect critically on the...
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I am looking for good data on geographical and/or institutional mobility of scientists in the US (and if possible Canada; also data on other countries can be useful). I am interested chiefly in internal mobility within the US, i.e. between institutions, cities, states. (There is a lot of literature on international mobility, far less on internal.) Please help.
Beaver and Rosen (1978) claim that "The earliest collaborative paper found was published in 1665 and attributed to HOOKE, OLDENBURG, CASSINI, and BOYLE". But it seems that it is the earliest collaborative (= more than one author) article in their 10% sample. This interpretation is suggested by the longer excerpt of their paper: "Of the approximately 20000 or so scientific papers written in the period, a 10% random sample was taken for certain research fields. Table 2 displays the statistical results. The earliest collaborative paper found was published in 1665 and attributed to HOOKE, OLDENBURG, CASSINI, and BOYLE. Only six of the forty-seven collaborative papers produced before 1800 in the sample date from the seventeenth century".
Beaver, D., & Rosen, R. (1978). Studies in scientific collaboration: Part I. The professional origins of scientific co-authorship. Scientometrics, 1(1), 65-84.
I am looking for examples of scientific collaboration policies, i.e. tools/measures/incentives used to boost scientific collaboration (between teams, organisations, regions, countries, internationally, etc.), and policies where scientific collaboration is used as a tool to achieve other aims (e.g. scientific/R&D quality enhancement, development of scientifically lagging regions, innovativeness, smart specialisation, etc.). I am interested in particular in the science-science collaboration, because the science-business collaboration is already well described in the literature.
I am interested in particular in:
- citable sources on policies, programmes or projects that use scientific collaboration as a tool or that aims in enhancing scientific collaboration (even if the collaboration is only a part of a broader policy) – we are interested both in present and in past policies;
- citable sources on evaluations (reviews, etc.) of such policies;
- information that scientific collaboration is not an important issue in the national scientific (or R&D) policy in a given country.
