Changes and Impact of Minimum Publication Requirements for University Full Professor Applications in Social Sciences in Hungary

On 1 Septem­ber 2020, the Guidelines for pre­par­a­tion and eval­u­ation of uni­versity full pro­fessor ap­plic­a­tions, as amended by Hun­garian Ac­cred­it­a­tion Com­mit­tee's De­cision 2020/6/IV/2 ad­op­ted Board 2019/5/VII/4, entered into force. The re­vised re­quire­ment sys­tem rep­res­ents trans­form­a­tion pre­vi­ous bench­marks. focus aca­demic per­form­ance has shif­ted to journal pub­lic­a­tions but bey­ond do­mestic pub­lic­a­tions, in­ter­na­tional – a pre­requis­ite vis­ib­il­ity prom­in­ent place in qual­ity rank­ing have also be­come con­di­tion achiev­ing de­grees. present study ex­am­ines im­pact con­sequences new re­quire­ments on ap­plic­a­tions and, more broadly, re­cog­ni­tion, through pub­lic­a­tion activ­it­ies lec­tur­ers at uni­versit­ies with pro­file eco­nom­ics so­cial sci­ences. Does “new” reg­u­la­tion Com­mit­tee af­fect sci­entific pro­gress in­di­vidual com­munity or in­sti­tu­tion?