A collaborative system to improve knowledge sharing in scientific research projects

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 624-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attipa Julpisit ◽  
Vatcharaporn Esichaikul
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Collaborative System ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Collaborative Activities

As knowledge sharing is important for every sector, it should be encouraged among team members. Particularly, scientific research projects usually involve knowledge-intensive teams that require members to share various knowledge forms while working together. Although several collaborative systems exist on different platforms, the system features required to improve knowledge sharing between researchers are insufficient. A collaborative system, the Research Collaboration System, designed and developed based on identified collaborative activities and the SECI model, is evaluated by two scientific research projects. Preliminary results show that this system could serve all major research activities of scientific research projects and enhance knowledge sharing.

scholarly journals DARE to be different? A novel approach for analysing diversity in collaborative research projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédérique Bone ◽  
Michael M Hopkins ◽  
Ismael Ràfols ◽  
Jordi Molas-Gallart ◽  
Puay Tang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Further Development

Abstract Growth in collaborative research raises difficulties for those tasked with research evaluation, particularly in situations where outcomes are slow to emerge. This article presents the ‘Diversity Approach to Research Evaluation’ (DARE) as a novel way to assess how researchers engaged in knowledge creation and application work together as teams. DARE provides two important insights: first, it reveals the differences in background and experience between individual team members that can make research collaboration both valuable and challenging; second, DARE provides early insights into how team members are working together. DARE achieves these insights by analysing team diversity and cohesiveness in five dimensions, building on Boschma’s multi-dimensional concept of proximity. The method we propose combines narratives, maps, and indicators to facilitate the study of research collaboration. The article introduces the DARE method and pilots an initial operationalization through the study of two grant-funded biomedical research projects led by researchers in the UK. Suggestions for further development of the approach are discussed.

Research Activities and Networks in CAIS Conferences for the Period of 1993- 2015: Social Network Analysis

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwan Yi ◽  
Tao Jin ◽  
Ping Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Collaborative Activities

Since 1973 the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS/ACSI) has consecutively held 43 annual conferences. The purpose of this study is to better understand the research and collaborative activities in the community of CAIS conferences, based on a social network analysis (SNA) approach. A total of 827 papers from 778 authors have been presented in CAIS for the period of 1993 to 2015, in association with 209 different organizations and 25 countries. A component analysis that has been applied to the collaboration network has discovered research collaboration patterns. This study contributes to discovering collaborative research activities and formation through the CAIS conference and to the literature of the scientific collaboration in the LIS field. Depuis 1973, l'Association canadienne de sciences de l'information (ACSI/CAIS) a tenu 43 congrès annuels consécutifs. Le but de cette étude est de mieux comprendre les activités de recherche et de collaboration dans la communauté de l’ACSI, à l’aide d’une approche d’analyse des réseaux sociaux (ARS). Un total de 827 articles de 778 auteurs ont été présentés à l’ACSI dans la période 1993-2015, en association avec 209 organisations différentes et 25 pays. L’analyse des composantes du réseau de collaboration met en lumière l’existence de patrons de collaboration de recherche au sein de la communauté. Cette étude contribue à l’étude des activités  de collaboration au sein des congrès de l’ACSI ainsi qu’à la littérature sur la collaboration scientifique dans le domaine BSI.

scholarly journals The importance of knowledge on the evaluation criteria in university scientific research projects

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Toma
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Quality ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Team Members ◽  
University Mission ◽  
The University

Scientific research is part of any university mission, at least of big universities, as it represents the complementary element required by the learning process. A learning process based on engendering knowledge is much more valuable and competitive than a learning process which is reduced to a mere transfer of knowledge from the teacher to the students. The important universities consider that “the development of scientific research as a fundamental competence is essential for survival in a more and more competitive environment on global level and that is why, research should be part of the university mission”1. This study aims to highlight how important it is for the university members to be aware of the evaluation criteria for the research projects they undertake. For this purpose, I have interviewed a number of 55 persons, project managers and team members in the projects from the “Research for Excellency” program and the National Plan of Research, Development and Innovation PN II 2007 – 2013. Out of the evaluation criteria for research, the most important ones were considered to be the scientific quality of the project and the quality of the human resources involved in the project.

scholarly journals Arbitration is needed to resolve scientific authorship disputes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zen Faulkes
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Large Power ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Scientific Authorship

Authorship of publications is the main way scientists received credit for their academic research. But as scientific research projects have become larger and more collaborative, the number of contributors has increased, and so has the potential for disputes over authorship. There is rarely detailed accounting of effort to justify authorship inclusion or placement. Instead, authorship is often negotiated by research team members, which is complicated by there often being large power differentials between team members. Existing recommendations are to try to get authors to work out disputes between themselves, which is unlikely to occur. There is an urgent need for an independent body that can offer binding arbitration for scientific collaborators and journals, like practices in other collaborative disciplines.

The use of Electronic Brainstorming for Collecting Ideas in Scientific Research Teams

2012 ◽  
pp. 157-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Michinov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Online Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Electronic Brainstorming ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Group Members

The purpose of this chapter is to present an under-used technique for collecting ideas in scientific research teams, namely electronic brainstorming. This technique employs networked computer terminals and software designed to allow group members to communicate electronically during idea-generation tasks. A large number of studies have demonstrated that electronic brainstorming is a useful non-verbal technique for improving the efficacy of e-collaboration, but there are very few situations in which this technique has been used to collect ideas in scientific research teams. Writing articles, reports, white papers, and other scientific documents requires good ideas that can be generated through effective brainstorming. Brainstorming is also recognized as a problem-solving technique which can help researchers find solutions to complex problems by listing their potential causes. Although it is a simple technique that can gather ideas from a group of individuals rapidly by letting them express their ideas freely, it has not been widely used to collect ideas for complex research projects involving researchers working together or in geographically dispersed teams. After reviewing the literature in the field of (electronic) brainstorming, the challenges and opportunities for extending this technique to online research by scientific teams are discussed.

Research collaboration and knowledge sharing in e-governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Bindu ◽  
C. Prem Sankar ◽  
K. Satheesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Collaboration Patterns

PurposeThis paper aims to introduce a systematic computing and analytical procedure that is applied to the co-author network to identify the temporal evolution and growth of research collaborations in the area of e-governance. The empirical analysis of the temporal co-author network can trace the emerging authors and knowledge bursts over time.Design/methodology/approachThe study applied social network theory to trace the author collaboration patterns in the domain of e-governance. Analysis of the co-author network using micro and macro parameters was done to trace the temporal evolution of the author collaborations.FindingsE-governance is a multi-disciplinary research domain split over streams of management, politics, information technology and electronics. Hence, research collaborations play a significant role in its advancement. The knowledge sharing between individual authors, institutions and groups through research collaborations, resulting in extensive sharing of data, equipment and research methods, has boosted research activities and development in e-governance. In this paper, the authors systematically analyse the current scenario of research collaborations in the area of e-governance using co-author network to estimate its impact on the advancement of the field. The authors also analysed the temporal evolution of the co-author networks, which show remarkable growth of research collaborations in the domain of e-governance from the year 2000.Research limitations/implicationsThe co-author network analysis is only a proxy measure for the analysis of research collaborations. The names of the authors and the university affiliations used in the article are as retrieved from the research repository of Scopus. The degree, citations and other parameters related with authors have scope only within the environment of the co-author network used in the analysis. The criteria used in the study is limited to the degree of research collaborations and the number of co-authored publications in the giant component of the co-author network.Practical implicationsInstitutions, authors and governments can trace and select suitable topics and choose research groups of co-authors over the world for future research collaborations in e-governance. The knowledge about the emerging and most discussed topics gives an overview of the global research trends of e-governance.Social implicationsThe study identified the evolution of creative collaborations in e-governance in the global perspective. The methodology introduced here is helpful to detect the proficient and productive author collaborations and the spectrum of related e-governance research topics associated with them. As the author collaborations can be mapped to the institutional and country-level collaborations, the information is helpful for researchers, institutions and governments to establish the best collaborations in e-governance research based on the author proficiency, collaboration patterns and research topics as per the requirements.Originality/valueThe paper introduces a novel research methodology using temporal analysis of co-author network to identify the evolution of research patterns and the associated research topics.

scholarly journals From transnational research collaboration to regional standards

2019 ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Baldissera Giovani ◽  
Gilles Cellier ◽  
Madeleine McMullen ◽  
Maria Saponari ◽  
Emilio Stefani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Plant Protection ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Mediterranean Plant ◽  
The Eu

Reliable and rapid diagnostic methods are essential to support inspection activities conducted by National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPOs) in the framework of their official mandate, and to evaluate the efficacy of control measures taken. Since 1998 the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) has been supporting the harmonization of diagnostic methods for regulated pests in the EPPO region through the development of technical standards. In order to increase active collaboration among the organizations involved in plant health research activities at the national and regional levels, Euphresco (European Phytosanitary Research Coordination) was established in 2006 and funded by the EU as an ERA-NET project. Euphresco has subsequently evolved into a self-sustaining international network hosted by EPPO. This paper describes the EPPO diagnostic programme. It will also provide some examples of research projects funded through Euphresco that have provided valuable support for the development of pest-specific diagnostic protocols and will show how NPPOs can shape the research agenda of research funders and help to identify gaps to be addressed through transnational collaboration.

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