Artur Bajerski
Articles
Geographia Polonica (2025) vol. 98, iss. 3, pp. 339-356 | 
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doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0306
Abstract
School size is an essential characteristic of the school network and one of the key conditions for the functioning and financing of schools. The main aim of this article is to assess the extent to which school size results from the influence of settlement and population factors (both historical and contemporary). We analysed data for all rural and urban-rural communes in Poland in 2022. A unique three-stage research procedure was applied, combining different categories of regression models (nationwide, regional, and geographically weighted regression [GWR]). The results indicate that settlement and population conditions are significant factors that shape the average school size. Their impact at the national scale is relatively small, but – according to the results of GWR modelling – it is strong in the vicinity of the largest cities and decreases with distance. In addition, four regional models seem to suggest the role of historical factors. These results, however, should be regarded as research artefacts reflecting the specificity of the spatial distribution of contemporary urbanisation processes.
Keywords: settlement system, rural schools, school size, regression analysis, Poland
[bajerski@amu.edu.pl], Faculty of Human Geography and Planning Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Krygowskiego 10, 61-680 Poznań: Poland
[wojciech.kisiala@ue.poznan.pl], Institute of Informatics and Quantitative Economics Poznań University of Economics and Business Al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań: Poland
Geographia Polonica (2018) vol. 91, iss. 3, pp. 265-280 | Full text
doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0120
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A number of investigations have recently been devoted to the issues of inequalities in the international academicdiscourse. Hardly any of them concern, though, scholarly publishing practices and the actual utilizationof the scientific output of non-Anglophone geographers, especially those from regions undergoing a neoliberalturn in the management of tertiary education and science. The following article aims to partly fill the gapthrough a close bibliometric analysis of the participation of researchers from East-Central Europe in internationalhuman geography. The investigation makes use of information about articles published in 48 geographicaljournals indexed in Web of Science. The results of the examination reveal that the share of researchers from East-Central Europe in the international geographical discourse is rather inconsiderable. The geographersstruggle with the following problems: (1) publishing in a limited group of periodicals (concerning mostly theissues of Europe) coupled with a dearth of publications in important American and British societal journalsas well as the ones of a more radical orientation; (2) infrequent citations of their works as compared to thoseof Anglophone and Western European researchers. All this is accounted for, inter alia, by (1) the negativeimpact the socialist period had on the development of social sciences, (2) a poor command of English, (3)a research focus on well-established and ‘safe’ themes as well as (4) the mechanisms of the Anglophone dominancein science. Giving all these handicaps careful consideration, the authors formulate the idea of double publication policy aimed at ameliorating the discussed problems.
Keywords: East-Central Europe, geographers • bibliometric analysis, scientific communication, Anglophone domination, English language
[bajerski@amu.edu.pl], Faculty of Human Geography and Planning Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Krygowskiego 10, 61-680 Poznań: Poland
[k.przygonski@wp.pl], Department of Linguistic Applications in Management Czestochowa University of Technology, Armii Krajowej 19 B, 42‑200 Częstochowa: Poland
Relations of geography with other disciplines: A bibliometric analysis
Geographia Polonica (2016) vol. 89, iss. 2, pp. 203-220 | Full text
doi: https://doi.org/GPol.0054
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The aim of this article was to examine the relations of physical and human geography with selected disciplines of natural and exact sciences as well as social sciences. The results shows that: (1) the position of geography among other disciplines is relatively high, however the relative position of human geography in social sciences is higher than that of physical geography in natural and exact sciences, (2) both geographical disciplines show an adverse 'trade balance' in scientific exchange, (3) human geography is more 'introverted', (4) relations between human geography and other disciplines are stronger than in the case of physical geography.
Keywords: geography, bibliometric analysis, journals, citations
, Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Dzięgielowa 2, 61-680 Poznań: Poland
[bajerski@amu.edu.pl], Faculty of Human Geography and Planning Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Krygowskiego 10, 61-680 Poznań: Poland