Zbigniew Osiński

Zbigniew Osiński is a Professor at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, where he works in the Department of Information and Digital Culture. His academic position as "profesor uczelni" indicates his status as a university professor with significant experience in his field. He maintains regular consultation hours, offering both online sessions via Microsoft Teams on Wednesdays from 12:00-13:00 and in-person meetings on Thursdays from 14:45-15:45 in room 10.

Dr. Osiński's research falls primarily within the domains of Digital Humanities and Information Science. His work focuses on several key areas including bibliometrics, scientific databases, information and knowledge visualization, information resources and competencies, digital culture, and Dark Web studies. He has developed particular expertise in mapping and visualizing information spaces, with his Individual Information Space model serving as a notable contribution to the field.

His scholarly output demonstrates a clear evolution of research interests over time. Initially focusing on digital humanities applications for historians, his work has expanded to encompass broader aspects of information science, digital culture, and Dark Web research. Recent publications (2023-2024) show a strong emphasis on bibliometric analysis of digital culture research, using tools like CiteSpace and data from Web of Science and Scopus. His work increasingly addresses the cultural aspects of Dark Web, information sharing in TOR networks, and the international versus Western-centric nature of leading library and information science journals.

Professor Osiński has made significant contributions to understanding how digital transformations affect information infrastructure in the humanities, the application of bibliometrics in evaluating scholarly work, and the cultural dimensions of emerging digital phenomena like cancel culture. His research often takes a Polish perspective while engaging with international scholarly conversations, as evidenced by publications in both Polish and international journals.