The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a critical guide to AHP. In this book, the
AHP method is considered primarily as a mathematical technique supporting the decision …

The Polish performance-based research funding system, which is called the Comprehensive
Evaluation of Scientific Units, is very complex. It comprises several aspects: the publication …

The introduction of new research evaluation policies in most of the Eastern European (EE)
countries was followed by the substantial growth in their (international) scientific productivity …

While “publish or perish” has been an integral part of academic research in Western
countries for several decades, the phenomenon has made its way to Central and Eastern …

This article discusses the metrics used in the national research evaluation in Poland of the
period 2009–2012. The Polish system uses mostly parametric assessments to make the …

Pairwise comparisons between alternatives are a well-established tool to decompose
decision problems into smaller and more easily tractable sub-problems. However, due to our …

This article discusses the Polish Journal Ranking, which is used in the research evaluation
system in Poland. In 2015, the ranking, which represents all disciplines, allocated 17,437 …

The article presents a large-scale comparison of journal rankings based on seven impact
measures: Impact Factor (2-and 5-year), SJR, IPP, SNIP, H index, and Article Influence …

The article is devoted to the problem of inconsistency in the pairwise comparisons based
prioritization methodology. The issue of “inconsistency” in this context has gained much …

This study proposes revised axioms for defining inconsistency indicators in pairwise
comparisons. It includes the new findings that “PC submatrix cannot have a worse …