scholarly journals How the publish-or-perish principle divides a science: the case of economists

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik P. van Dalen
Keyword(s):  
Latent Class ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Faculty Position ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Teaching Administration ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Unethical Practices ◽  
Publication Pressure ◽  
Ranking Position

AbstractThe publish-or-perish principle has become a fact of academic life in gaining a position or being promoted. Evidence is mounting that benefits of this pressure is being countered by the downsides, like forms of goal displacement by scientists or unethical practices. In this paper we evaluate whether perceived work pressure (publishing, acquisition funds, teaching, administration) is associated with different attitudes towards science and the workplace among economists working at Dutch universities. Publication pressure is high and is related to faculty position and university ranking position. Based on a latent class analysis we can detect a clear divide among economists. Around two third of the economists perceives that this pressure has upsides as well as serious downsides and one third only perceives upsides and no downsides. Full professors see more than other faculty members the positive sides of the publish-or-perish principle and virtually no downsides. These different perceptions are also reflected in their appreciation of the academic work environment.

scholarly journals Nurse education today: Between teaching and publication focus

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-266
Author(s):  
Joko Gunawan ◽  
Yupin Aungsuroch ◽  
Mary L Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nurse Education ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Related Phenomenon ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Academic Reputation ◽  
Organizational Benefits ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Education Today

“Publish or Perish” is no longer an imagination. On the contrary, it is considered a new reality in nursing education today. All nurse scholars, researchers, faculty members, and students are eager and compete with each other to publish their research works in academic journals. Success in this challenge brings personal benefits, especially for academic reputation and promotion, as well as organizational benefits, such as university ranking and sponsorship. However, despite the advantages of faculty publication, the pros and cons of this topic are on the rise. Therefore, this article aims to discuss the publication-related phenomenon in nursing education, followed by concerns and recommendations for consideration.

scholarly journals Publish Or Perish: Evaluating And Promoting Scholarly Output

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Low Hui Min ◽  
Amelia Abdullah ◽  
Abdul Rashid Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Journal Publication ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
Research Supervision ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
University Performance ◽  
And Training

Scholarly output, particularly in the form of journal publication is a key indicator in various levels of university performance. It contributes to university ranking, faculty ranking and academicians scholarship credentials. Therefore, scholarly output has become a standard measure used to determine intake, promotion and tenure renewal of academicians at the faculty and university levels. In this paper, the Deans office of an education faculty in a Malaysia university collected and analyzed the faculty members journal publication outputs in 2011 as a way to determine the directions to move forward. From an integrated quantitative and qualitative investigation, research supervision and group publication were identified as the major catalysts for research publications. The findings informed the importance of project development and training in these two areas.

Teaching Health Law

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 863-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall B. Kapp
Keyword(s):  
Medical Schools ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Law School ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Faculty Position ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Law Faculty

Thirty years ago when I, an attorney, took a tenure-track faculty position at an innovative, newly opened medical school, I was an oddity — truly, a stranger in a strange land. Today it is not uncommon for American medical schools to employ an attorney as a tenured or tenure-track member of its faculty. Over these last three decades, the educational roles and responsibilities of health law faculty who teach in law schools have become increasingly well defined, with numerous health law courses and textbooks now generally accepted as part of the typical law school curriculum. However, the roles and responsibilities of attorney faculty members who teach in medical schools remain less clearly defined and likely are more individualized to the particular medical schools in which they teach. This essay explores some of the challenges and the opportunities which are given to attorney faculty members who teach in medical schools.

The Effects of the “Publish or Perish Syndrome” on Research and Innovation in Nigerian Universities

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Floribert Patrick C. Endong
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University System ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Research Production ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Nigerian University

The pressure to publish rapidly and constantly is a phenomenon engulfing academia in all countries of the globe. It has, over the years, affected research and innovation in a mostly negative way. In Nigerian universities in particular, this culture has mainly been a syndrome, manifested by (1) the urge among faculty members to publish more for promotions and positions than for genuine research production, (2) publishing for purely capitalistic motivations, (3) the use of unorthodox methodologies to boost citation index, and (4) fictive authorship of research works among others. All these objectionable practices have been responsible for various forms of decay in research and teaching in the Nigerian university system. They have, for instance, made plagiarism, data mining, predatory journals, duplicate publications, among other challenges, pervade research in Nigerian universities, causing innovation to remain more an ideal than a reality in these tertiary institutions. Using empirical understandings and critical observations, this chapter illustrates all these issues.

scholarly journals Technological University Faculty ICT Barriers during the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Г.Ф. Хасанова ◽  
Ф.Т. Шагеева ◽  
Н.В. Крайсман
Keyword(s):  
Online Communication ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Faculty Position ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Online Format ◽  
Technological University ◽  
Scientific Degree

Во время пандемии коронавируса преподаватели столкнулись с необходимостью быстро перевести весь образовательный процесс в онлайн-формат. Университеты испытывали трудности с быстрой организацией и унификацией данного процесса для преподавательского состава. Готовность преподавателей к проведению онлайн-занятий существенно различалась, и в условиях самоизоляции они испытывали трудности в получении технической поддержки или консультаций относительно решения возникающих проблем. Данное исследование было нацелено на выявление ИКТ-барьеров, с которыми преподаватели столкнулись в ходе пандемии. Для решения этой задачи авторами был проведен опрос преподавателей Казанского национального исследовательского технологического университета на основе анкеты, включавшей утверждения относительно трудностей, с которыми преподаватели столкнулись в ходе онлайн-коммуникации с обучающимися с начала пандемии. Отношение к тридцати трем барьерам оценивалось на основе коэффициента углового преобразования Фишера с учетом должности, ученой степени преподавателей, стажа работы, возраста, пола и преподаваемых дисциплин. During the coronavirus pandemic, faculty members were faced with the need to suddenly transfer the entire educational process to an online format. Universities found it difficult to quickly organize and unify this process for their educators. The latter’s readiness to conduct online classes varied, and in conditions of self-isolation it was difficult for them to get technical support or consultations on how to solve emerging problems. The current study aims to identify the ICT barriers that educators faced after the outbreak of the pandemic and their preferences of the various online tools they used during this period. To achieve these objectives, the authors surveyed faculty members at the Kazan National Research Technological University. A questionnaire was developed including statements concerning difficulties faculty members had experienced in their online-communication with learners since the beginning of the pandemic. Attitudes towards thirty-three barriers were evaluated depending on respondents’ faculty position, scientific degree, teaching experience, age, gender, and group of taught disciplines.

scholarly journals Opportunity, job pressure and deviant workplace behaviour: does neutralisation mediate the relationship? A study of faculty members in public universities in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Olalekan Adeoti ◽  
Faridahwati Mohd Shamsudin ◽  
AlHamwan Mousa Mohammad
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Climate ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Workplace Deviance ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Fraud Triangle ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Triangle Theory ◽  
Interpersonal Deviance ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of the present study was twofold: (1) to examine the direct effect of the dimensions of opportunity (i.e. ethical climate and institutional policy) and dimensions of job pressure (i.e. workload and work pressure) on workplace deviance (i.e. organisational and interpersonal deviance) and (2) to assess the mediation of neutralisation in the relationship between the dimensions of opportunity, job pressure and workplace deviance.Design/methodology/approachThe present study drew from the fraud triangle theory (FTT; Cressey, 1950) and the theory of neutralisation (Sykes and Matza, 1957) to achieve the research objectives. Survey data from 356 full-time faculty members in Nigerian public universities were collected. Partial least square-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was employed to analyse the data.FindingsThe results indicated that opportunity and job pressure significantly affected workplace deviance. As expected, neutralisation was found to mediate the negative relationship between ethical climate and interpersonal deviance and the positive relationship between workload, work pressure and interpersonal deviance. Contrary to expectation, neutralisation did not mediate the relationship between opportunity, pressure and organisational deviance.Research limitations/implicationsThe sample was drawn from academics in public universities and the cross-sectional nature of this study means that the findings have limited generalisations.Practical implicationsThis study offers insights into the management of Nigerian public universities on the need to curb workplace deviance amongst faculty members. This study recommends that the management improve the work environment by enhancing the ethical climate and institutional policies and reviewing the existing workload that may constitute pressure to the faculty members.Originality/valueThe present study provides empirical support for the fraud triangle theory and theory of neutralisation to explain workplace deviance.

Managing in Turbulent Times

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-196
Author(s):  
Albert N. Greco
Keyword(s):  
High Impact ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Research Grants ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
University Presses

Faculty members and researchers live and work in a highly structured and in many ways an inflexible world of “publish or perish.” To obtain tenure and promotion or research grants, an academic has to produce high-impact scholarly publications, which can vary significantly from one institution to another and from one academic field to another. This chapter addresses the changing scholarly book environment and competition to university presses from commercial publishers seeking scale. A list of marketing strategies is presented stressing the need to understand the bargaining power of suppliers and customers; a need for focus in the marketplace; and the possibility of affinity clusters, audiobooks, “short” books, and selling book chapters to address market slippage. Detailed statistical data is presented.

Academic promotion and tenure: a user’s guide for junior faculty members

Hematology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
pp. 736-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Junior Faculty Member ◽  
Faculty Position ◽  
Academic Promotion ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
The Road ◽  
Academic Tracks ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract Securing a junior faculty position is an important early step in an academic career in hematology. Shortly thereafter one should begin to plan for eventual promotion and possible tenure. The process is not straightforward, as the “rules of the road” regarding academic positions, academic tracks, assessment and evaluation metrics, and timelines vary immensely from one institution to another. It is critically important, therefore, for the new junior faculty member to become knowledgeable about the institutional policies and “culture” regarding this process. This understanding includes the definition of and criteria for achieving tenure, the academic tracks and the policies for advancement on each track, and the process by which the institutional committee responsible for promotion and tenure conducts its activities. Learning the rules and successfully navigating the academic pathway will help ensure success by achieving the desired promotion and the self-satisfaction, prestige, and financial awards that may accompany it.

Why do you publish? On the tensions between generating scientific knowledge and publication pressure

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 529-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Hangel ◽  
Diana Schmidt-Pfister
Keyword(s):  
Science Studies ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Career Stage ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Direct Question ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Publication Pressure ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Postdoctoral Researchers

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine researchers’ motivations to publish by comparing different career stages (PhD students; temporarily employed postdocs/new professors; scholars with permanent employment) with regard to epistemic, pragmatic, and personal motives. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative analysis is mainly based on semi-structured narrative interviews with 91 researchers in the humanities, social, and natural sciences, based at six renowned (anonymous) universities in Germany, the UK, and the USA. These narratives contain answers to the direct question “why do you publish?” as well as remarks on motivations to publish in relation to other questions and themes. The interdisciplinary interpretation is based on both sociological science studies and philosophy of science in practice. Findings At each career stage, epistemic, pragmatic, and personal motivations to publish are weighed differently. Confirming earlier studies, the authors find that PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in temporary positions mainly feel pressured to publish for career-related reasons. However, across status groups, researchers also want to publish in order to support collective knowledge generation. Research limitations/implications The sample of interviewees may be biased toward those interested in reflecting on their day-to-day work. Social implications Continuous and collective reflection is imperative for preventing uncritical internalization of pragmatic reasons to publish. Creating occasions for reflection is a task not only of researchers themselves, but also of administrators, funders, and other stakeholders. Originality/value Most studies have illuminated how researchers publish while adapting to or growing into the contemporary publish-or-perish culture. This paper addresses the rarely asked question why researchers publish at all.

scholarly journals “Raced” Organizations and the Academic Success of Underrepresented Minority Faculty Members in Sociology

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Spalter-Roth ◽  
Jean H. Shin ◽  
Jason A. Smith ◽  
Amber C. Kalb ◽  
Kyle K. Moore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
White Male ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Minority Faculty ◽  
Underrepresented Minority ◽  
Historically White ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Hispanic Serving

The purpose of this research is to determine whether participating in “raced” organizations benefits underrepresented minority (URM) faculty members in their quest for tenure and promotion to associate professor of sociology. Raced organizations such as historically black colleges and universities began as segregated institutions because black students and faculty members were prevented from attending or working at white-dominated institutions. Over time, raced organizations developed within the white-dominated institutions and were often created in opposition to white or “mainstream” sociology. Latina/o organizations (including Hispanic-serving institutions) started years after organizations for black scholars and have followed a similar pattern and purpose. Although historically white institutions no longer legally segregate URM organizations and activities, these organizations and activities often remain marginalized and devalued. The authors examine the relationship of participating in such organizations in contrast to publishing in peer-reviewed journals for climbing the academic ladder at research-extensive and other institutions. The authors find that there is a significant relationship between publishing and being promoted. URM faculty members must follow the “publish or perish” model, following historically white male norms for an “ideal” career in the academic world. The work of black and Latina/o sociologists still appears to be marginalized. Only one type of raced organization or activity, belonging to a URM-oriented section of the American Sociological Association, is significantly related to upward mobility at either research-extensive or non-research-extensive institutions. The authors conclude with a series of policy recommendations for increasing the academic status and well-being of URM faculty members.

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