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.

scholarly journals BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PUBLISHED LITERATURE ON TAXATION IN MALAYSIA, BASED ON SCOPUS DATABASE

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (Number 1) ◽  
pp. 59-86
Author(s):  
Abba Ya’u ◽  
Natrah Saad
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Search Term ◽  
Bibliometric Indicators ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Research Grants ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Tax Practitioners ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Universiti Utara Malaysia

Taxation research has received considerable attention from many scholars, practitioners and policymakers across the globe. Many scholars have also conducted research on taxation in the Malaysian context. However, papers that track the trends of such research are scanty in the existing literature. The aim of this study is to review the trend and frequencies of published literature on taxation in Malaysia based on the Scopus database using the search term “Malaysia and tax”. The design of the study is bibliometric analysis. As of 23rd September 2020, a total of 88 documents were retrieved and analysed using Excel, Hazing’s Publish or Perish and VOSviewer software. Based on the standard bibliometric indicators, this paper reports the research papers and source types, years and language of publications, subject area, most active institutions, most active sources’ titles, keywords, authorship, abstract, title analysis and citation analysis. Findings revealed that there is an increase in growth rate of literature on studies related to taxation in the Malaysian context from 1977 to 2020 published in the Scopos database. The publications reached an all-time peak in 2016 to 2017 but significantly dropped in 2018 and 2019 based on the data retrieved from the Scopus database. The findings further show that Universiti Teknologi MARA is the most influential institution with 18.18% of the total documents retrieved, followed by Universiti Utara Malaysia with 9.1% respectively. Additional findings of the study show that Advance Science Letters is the highest source title with 14.71% of the published documents. The finding also indicates that Adhikari, Derashid and Zhang (2006) are the most influential authors with 187 citations as at 23rd September 2020. The research is limited to the literatures published in Scopus database, other database were not covered in this study. Malaysian policymakers should provide more research grants to tax practitioners and academicians to increase the level of publications in this field.

scholarly journals A Case Study on Experiential Learning in a First-Year General Education Course

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niki Weller ◽  
Julie Saam
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Student Success ◽  
General Education ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Collaborative ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
High Impact Practices

Experiential-learning provides opportunities for students that feature a variety of high-impact practices including first-year seminars, internships, community learning, collaborative projects, and capstone seminars. To offer these high-impact practices for students, faculty from across disciplines and majors must be willing to incorporate these opportunities within their courses and degrees. Indiana University Kokomo has offered two successful programs to support these high-impact practices. One program, the Kokomo Experience and You (KEY), supports faculty in the development and implementation of events and activities to support student learning. The other, the Student Success Academy Faculty Fellows Program, provided faculty members the opportunity to examine research and concepts so that they can better promote student success in their classrooms. Building on the success of these two programs, a third initiative, the Experiential Learning Academy (ELA), was launched in 2018, funded by a Reimagining the First Years mini-grant from AASCU.

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.

STEM faculty members' experience of sabbatical leave: a narrative study

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naser Shirbagi ◽  
Parisa Gholami
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Individual Dimension ◽  
Sabbatical Leave

PurposeIn this research, which has involved collecting Iranian faculty members' accounts of their experiences of sabbaticals, the authors are seeking to understand how faculty members make sense of events throughout the process of sabbatical, construction these events into episodes and thereby maintaining unity within their lives.Design/methodology/approachUsing narrative qualitative method and episodic interviews the researchers collected and analyzed the data by applying MAXQDA 2020 software. In this study, the impact of sabbatical leave on faculty members' academic achievement was measured in three ways: individually, professionally and organizationally.FindingsSabbatical leave changed their academic and personal values. In addition, the results of the narrative analysis showed that sabbatical leave experience could enable faculty members to change themselves in terms of their lifestyle and attitudes. A considerable influence on their families was also found. Moreover, from individual dimension, it was found that participants' engagement with their colleagues and their sense of social responsibility especially in environmental protection zone area had increased. Furthermore, in professional and academic area, the participants reported tendency toward more team work, more creative approach and they developed a sense of innovation and willingness to take risks.Practical implicationsThe findings of the study showed that faculty members sabbatical leave experience could stimulate their global thinking toward foreign overseas universities, their students and colleagues and they could have more publications in foreign languages. Based on the findings of the study some reconsiderations in administrative regulations should be taken into account in order to enable volunteer faculty members to take part in sabbatical leave programs.Social implicationsThe authors demonstrate that how Iranian higher education regulations and dominated patriarchy, deprive female faculty members from sabbaticals. In addition, the results indicate that using sabbatical leaves by males, and mostly in STEM fields in Iran are fundamental in producing and reproducing inequalities regarding gender and academic field.Originality/valueThe paper addresses an important topic and by using a relevant qualitative method for examining participants' views in the study has added complementary information to the literature of faculty members' professional development. The study has been conducted in a particular context with a different understanding of the topic, since studying such a topic in Iran is missing almost in the literature.

The Business of Scholarly Publishing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert N. Greco
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Product Price ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
The Us ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

This is a detailed analysis of the business of the scholarly publishing of books, journals, preprints, and various scholarly publications in institutional repositories in the United States. Drawing on an extensive review of the literature and statistical sources, the book examines the changing environment of scholarly publishing and the product, price, placement, promotion, and costs (including some profit and loss statements) of scholarly books and journals. Special attention is paid to the history and development of scholarly books and journals; intellectual property issues, including the development of the US copyright law and infringement issues of Sci-Hub; an author’s contract; and the impact of technology (including open access) on books and journals. The book also discusses how scholarly publishers are trying to manage in what are turbulent times. The book contains extensive notes, book and journal statistical tables, and figures.

scholarly journals Library Supported Open Access Funds: Criteria, Impact, and Viability

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Amanda B. Click ◽  
Rachel Borchardt
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Journal Impact Factor ◽  
High Impact ◽  
H Index ◽  
Publication Data ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Journal Impact ◽  
Article Impact

Abstract Objective – This study analyzes scholarly publications supported by library open access funds, including author demographics, journal trends, and article impact. It also identifies and summarizes open access fund criteria and viability. The goal is to better understand the sustainability of open access funds, as well as identify potential best practices for institutions with open access funds. Methods – Publication data was solicited from universities with open access (OA) funds, and supplemented with publication and author metrics, including Journal Impact Factor, Altmetric Attention Score, and author h-index. Additionally, data was collected from OA fund websites, including fund criteria and guidelines. Results – Library OA funds tend to support faculty in science and medical fields. Impact varied widely, especially between disciplines, but a limited measurement indicated an overall smaller relative impact of publications funded by library OA funds. Many open access funds operate using similar criteria related to author and publication eligibility, which seem to be largely successful at avoiding the funding of articles published in predatory journals. Conclusions – Libraries have successfully funded many publications using criteria that could constitute best practices in this area. However, institutions with OA funds may need to identify opportunities to increase support for high-impact publications, as well as consider the financial stability of these funds. Alternative models for OA support are discussed in the context of an ever-changing open access landscape.

Publications by faculty members indexed in Science Citation Index and Scopus: an Iranian case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1247-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Golnessa Galyani-Moghaddam ◽  
Hassan Jafari ◽  
Asghar Sattarzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Science Citation Index ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
National Level ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Science Citation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The Usa

Purpose The paper aims to report an investigation that was conducted to identify the scholarly publications by faculty members of the Allameh Tabataba’i University that were indexed in two international databases, Science Citation Index (SCI) and Scopus, from the year the databases first included Iranian-authored papers (1987 and 1989, respectively) through the end of 2015. Design methodology/approach Scientometric methods and social network analysis techniques were used to conduct the study and to analyze the co-authorship network. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were carried out on the data. Quantitative analysis was accomplished using Microsoft Excel, while the qualitative analysis was carried out using HistCite, VOSviewer and Pajek software. Findings Faculty members had the most international cooperation with colleagues from the USA and Switzerland, and they jointly authored papers with faculty and staff from other universities within Iran. The three institutions with the highest rate of co-authorship included the Islamic Azad University, Tehran University and Amir Kabir University of Technology. Practical implications The overall overlap among the two databases was about 21 per cent. The number of papers indexed by Scopus (583 records) was more than that by SCI (410 records). The total number of papers at an international level was much lower than that at the national level (6,426 records) in both the databases. Originality/value This paper provides insight into the scholarly works by the faculty of Allameh Tabataba’i University indexed in two international databases, SCI and Scopus. It also examines the co-authorship network structure.

scholarly journals Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0242509
Author(s):  
Balázs Bodó ◽  
Dániel Antal ◽  
Zoltán Puha
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge Absorption ◽  
Limited Usefulness ◽  
Knowledge Access

Library Genesis is one of the oldest and largest illegal scholarly book collections online. Without the authorization of copyright holders, this shadow library hosts and makes more than 2 million scholarly publications, monographs, and textbooks available. This paper analyzes a set of weblogs of one of the Library Genesis mirrors, provided to us by one of the service’s administrators. We reconstruct the social and economic factors that drive the global and European demand for illicit scholarly literature. In particular, we test if lower income regions can compensate for the shortcomings in legal access infrastructures by more intensive use of illicit open resources. We found that while richer regions are the most intensive users of shadow libraries, poorer regions face structural limitations that prevent them from fully capitalizing on freely accessible knowledge. We discuss these findings in the wider context of open access publishing, and point out that open access knowledge, if not met with proper knowledge absorption infrastructures, has limited usefulness in addressing knowledge access and production inequalities.

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.

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