Japanese Doctoral Students’ Career Plans and Research Productivity: Main Findings from a 2017 National Survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Akira Arimoto ◽  
Tsukasa Daizen ◽  
Futao Huang ◽  
Yangson Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Career Plans ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

Abstract The purpose of this study is to analyze doctoral students’ career plans and research productivity, as well as key factors affecting both, based on relevant findings from a 2017 national survey of doctoral students at Japanese universities. The main findings of this study are as follows. First, Japanese doctoral students tend to have diverse post-graduation career plans. They not only consider becoming academics but also expect to be hired in industry and business. This expectation is particularly strong among students from engineering, while more of those studying humanities and social sciences want to become academics. Second, the survey revealed that Japanese doctoral students’ host universities, age, gender, and their marital status, had no significant influence on their research productivity.

Conversation Analysis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Sidnell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Action Sequencing

Conversation analysis is an approach to the study of social interaction and talk-in-interaction that, although rooted in the sociological study of everyday life, has exerted significant influence across the humanities and social sciences including linguistics. Drawing on recordings (both audio and video) naturalistic interaction (unscripted, non-elicited, etc.) conversation analysts attempt to describe the stable practices and underlying normative organizations of interaction by moving back and forth between the close study of singular instances and the analysis of patterns exhibited across collections of cases. Four important domains of research within conversation analysis are turn-taking, repair, action formation and ascription, and action sequencing.

Belief in an Afterlife: A National Survey

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Klenow ◽  
Robert C. Bolin
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
National Opinion Research ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Life After Death

This article presents an exploratory analysis of factors affecting belief in an afterlife. Data are taken from the 1978 subfile on the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey. With belief in life after death serving as the dependent variable, a number of variables are introduced in a tabular analysis. Among factors found to be statistically significant are sex, race, age, marital status, and several religious and residential variables. Controlling on frequency of church attendance and religious intensity, it is shown that Protestants have the highest incidence of belief in life after death, followed closely by Catholics, with Jews exhibiting the lowest level. A discriminant analysis was run in order to select a group of independent variables that were good predictors of belief in an afterlife. Race, religion, and church attendance were found to be significant discriminating variables of such belief.

scholarly journals Factors affecting research productivity of production and operations management groups: An empirical study

2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
George C. Hadjinicola ◽  
Andreas C. Soteriou
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
External Funding ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
External Sources ◽  
Management Groups

This paper identifies factors that promote research productivity of production and operations management (POM) groups of researchers in US business schools. In this study, research productivity of a POM group is defined as the number of articles published per POM professor in a specific period of time. The paper also examines factors that affect research quality, as measured by the number of articles published per POM professor in journals, which have been recognized in the POM literature as an elite set. The results show that three factors increase both the research productivity and the quality of the articles published by professors of a POM group. These factors are (a) the presence of a POM research center, (b) funding received from external sources for research purposes, and (c) better library facilities. Doctoral students do assist in improving research quality and productivity, but they are not the driving force. These results have important implications for establishing policy guidelines for business schools. For example, real-world problems are funded by external sources and have a higher probability of publication. Furthermore, schools could place more emphasis on external funding, as most engineering schools do, since groups receiving external funding are more productive in terms of research.

scholarly journals Unveiling ‘European’ and ‘International’ Researcher Identities: A Case Study with Doctoral Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Lopes ◽  
Lourenço
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
International Researcher ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Portuguese Higher Education

The significance of ‘identity’ in doctoral studies is widely acknowledged. Nevertheless, despite much research on what is involved in the process of identification with/as a researcher, very little attention has been devoted to understanding the effects of the internationalization of higher education in promoting feelings of belonging to a researcher community that goes beyond the national space. This qualitative case study aims to understand whether and how doctoral students in the Humanities and Social Sciences develop a ‘European’ or ‘international’ researcher identity during their doctoral studies. To address this aim, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with twelve home and international doctoral students from a Portuguese higher education institution. Results from thematic analysis suggest that although the dichotomy ‘European’/‘international’ was not always clear in participants’ minds, those students who undertook mobility experiences or took part in international research networks or supervisory teams were more likely to regard themselves as ‘international’ or ‘European’ researchers. The implications of these findings for doctoral programs in an era of internationalization are highlighted.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Incentives for International Publications on Research Cultures in Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences

Minerva ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Xu ◽  
Alis Oancea ◽  
Heath Rose
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Incentive Scheme ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Incentive Schemes ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Managerial Culture ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Research Incentives

AbstractIncentives for improving research productivity at universities prevail in global academia. However, the rationale, methodology, and impact of such incentives and consequent evaluation regimes are in need of scrutinization. This paper explores the influences of financial and career-related publishing incentive schemes on research cultures. It draws on an analysis of 75 interviews with academics, senior university administrators, and journal editors from China, a country that has seen widespread reliance on international publication counts in research evaluation and reward systems. The study focuses on humanities and social sciences (HSS) as disciplinary sites, which embody distinct characteristics and have experienced the introduction of incentive schemes in China since the early 2000s. Findings reveal tensions between internationalization and indigenization, quality and quantity, integrity and instrumentalism, equity and inequity in Chinese academia. In particular, we argue that a blanket incentive scheme could reinforce a managerial culture in higher education, encourage performative objectification of academics, and jeopardize their agency. We thereby challenge ‘one-size-fits-all’ policymaking, and suggest instead that institutions should have the opportunity to adopt an ethical and ‘human-oriented’ approach when developing their research incentives and evaluation mechanisms.

scholarly journals "Weekend tourism" - a tourism product aimed at customers living and working in big cities in Vietnam (Case study of Binh Duong Province)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Xuan Thi Hong Phan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
History Of

To implement this article, we have chosen the research area of ​​Binh Duong (bordering Ho Chi Minh City, with a history of over 300 years of development, with 11 years of operating the type of weekend tourism from 2008 to present); have used some research methods in social sciences, particularly ethnographic fieldwork such as strategic interview, comparing and analyzing data gathered from multiple sources. The article consists of 3 parts: (1) The concept of "Weekend tourism" and specific products (2) Identify key factors affecting the exploitation of the "weekend tourism" type in Binh Duong (3) A number of measures to contribute to the development of "weekend tourism" in the context of international integration.

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