Abstract

This study focuses on the evaluation of artistic disciplines (visual and performing arts) within performance-based university research funding systems. It offers an analysis of the Polish academic research evaluation system and investigates its effects on the scholarly productivity of artists-academics. Poland has adopted a performance-based research funding system that includes evaluation of artistic productions (without considering them as ‘research’) and developed a comprehensive quantification of artistic achievements. We analyse data from the Polish Current Research Information System on 136,894 outputs submitted by 93 art faculties for two evaluation exercises (in 2013 and 2017). Our findings demonstrate a change in scholarly productivity of artists-academics towards publication practices characteristic for science-oriented disciplines. We also find that art departments located in universities exhibit a greater tendency for changing publication practices than departments located in independent art schools. The findings from this study demonstrate that both: (1) the designs of national research evaluation systems and (2) the structures of higher education may influence scholarly outcomes in practice-based disciplines.

摘要

本研究侧重于评估基于表演的大学研究资助系统中的艺术学科（视觉和表演艺术）。它提供了对波兰学术研究评估系统的分析，并调查了它对艺术家学者学术生产力的影响。波兰采用了基于表演的研究资助体系，包括对艺术作品的评估（不将其视为“研究”），并制定了对艺术成就的全面量化。我们分析了波兰当前研究信息系统中 93 个艺术学院为两次评估活动（2013 年和 2017 年）提交的 136,894 份产出的数据。我们的研究结果表明，艺术家学者的学术生产力向以科学为导向的学科的出版实践特征转变。我们还发现，大学中的艺术系比独立艺术学院的系更倾向于改变出版实践。这项研究的结果表明：（1）国家研究评估系统的设计和（2）高等教育的结构可能会影响基于实践的学科的学术成果。