Petition for the fair evaluation of the Journal ONOMASTICA by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science

 Petition

In Poland, the assessment of science and research institutions is based mainly on the sum of “points” collected by staff members for their publications. Points for publications are assigned according to de facto arbitrarily predefined lists of journals indicating that for a paper in some journals a researcher gets 20 points, for a paper in other journals 40, while further journals are given 70, 100, 140 or 200 points. As a matter of fact, it is only the place of publication and not the paper content and quality that counts. A single work may be given 20, 40, 70, 100, 140 or 200 points depending solely on the predefined journal value. Therefore, the value preassigned to journals is of vital importance in the case of highly specialized sub-disciplines.

The only Polish (and one of the world’s few) onomastic journals, the journal ONOMASTICA, has been preassigned only 20 points, which means that high quality onomastic papers that have limited chances of being published elsewhere in other more generally themed journals are a priori undervalued by the Polish science evaluation system. This creates a general disadvantage for onomastic research in Poland.

ONOMASTICA is a longstanding multilingual onomastic journal published by the Institute of the Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences, as an Open Access journal and requires no fees or charges for submission processing or publishing. Further information is available here: https://onomastica.ijp.pan.pl/index.php/ONOM/essential-facts

IN THIS PETITION the Polish Onomastic Society requests the Polish Minister of Education and Science to increase the value of papers published in the journal ONOMASTICA from 20 to at least 70 points.

Wojciech Włoskowicz, PhD
President of the Board
Polish Onomastic Society

Express your solidarity with Polish onomastics and onomasticians by signing this Petition for the fair evaluation of the Journal ONOMASTICA!

Wojciech Włoskowicz, Polskie Towarzystwo Onomastyczne    Skontaktuj się z autorem petycji