scholarly journals Involving Ukrainian early career scientists in publishing practices and their attitudes to scholarly communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
Svitlana Fiialka
Keyword(s):  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Early Career ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Scientific Dialogue ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Access To Data

This paper highlights the authorship, co-authorship, and peer review experience of Ukrainian early career scientists to see their attitudes to scholarly communication. A questionnaire was distributed through Facebook groups and university networks all over Ukraine. Results from 630 respondents demonstrated contradictory tendencies of Ukrainian early scientists’ publication activity. Most respondents try to gain recognition, adhere to high standards, and improve their writing skills. Meanwhile, there is a problem of low motivation, violations of academic integrity, detachment from the international scientific community, etc. 5.6% of respondents admitted that they wrote articles where they substituted the results without conducting experiments, deliberately distorted the results of research, and forged experimental data. Above a half of the respondents (52.9%) have experience of reviewing and consider it to improve their authorship skills, engage in scientific dialogue, cope with new methods and theories, etc. But 95.0% of reviewers had problems, for example obviously poor-quality articles for review (47.5%), a request for a review when the article does not match the reviewer’s qualifications (32.5%), no access to data to check dubious results (15.0%), lack of instructions for reviewers (10.0%), ignoring significant remarks by authors (7.5%). The survey showed a significant predominance of co-authored articles. Among the main motives for publishing co-authored articles, respondents highlighted the following: saving time, intellectual development, co-payment of publications, access to expensive equipment, the chance of being quoted, and cooperation.

A Call to Develop Standards for Those Delivering ‘Research Practice’ Training

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Kingsley
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
The North

The nature of the research endeavour is changing rapidly and requires a wide set of skills beyond the research focus. The delivery of aspects of researcher training ‘beyond the bench’ is met by different sections of an institution, including the research office, the media office and the library. In Australia researcher training in open access, research data management and other aspects of open science is primarily offered by librarians. But what training do librarians receive in scholarly communication within their librarianship degrees? For a degree to be offered in librarianship and information science, it must be accredited by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), with a curriculum that is based on ALIA’s lists of skills and attributes. However, these lists do not contain any reference to key open research terms and are almost mutually exclusive with core competencies in scholarly communication as identified by the North American Serials Interest Group and an international Joint Task Force. Over the past decade teaching by academics in universities has been professionalised with courses and qualifications. Those responsible for researcher training within universities and the material that is being offered should also meet an agreed accreditation. This paper is arguing that there is a clear need to develop parallel standards around ‘research practice’ training for PhD students and Early Career Researchers, and those delivering this training should be able to demonstrate their skills against these standards. Models to begin developing accreditation standards are starting to emerge, with the recent launch of the Centre for Academic Research Quality and Improvement in the UK. There are multiple organisations, both grassroots and long-established that would be able to contribute to this project.

scholarly journals Developing scholarly communication competencies: How a post-master’s degree residency program can provide career preparation

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Willa Tavernier
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Residency Program ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Career Preparation ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Residency Position ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Communication Competencies

Scholarly communication librarianship is a messy field. Its margins are ill-defined and ever- changing. There is a lack of curricular training in library schools and a lack of opportunities for early-career candidates. As a result, preparing librarians for a scholarly communication career presents a challenge. In this piece I discuss this messiness and describe my personal experiences in a residency position, showing how these kinds of positions support the professional development of scholarly communication librarians, with specific reference to the NASIG Core Competencies for scholarly communication librarians.

scholarly journals Peer Review Process in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Publishing

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Bishnu Bahadur Khatri
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quality Control Mechanism

Peer review in scholarly communication and scientific publishing, in one form or another, has always been regarded as crucial to the reputation and reliability of scientific research. In the growing interest of scholarly research and publication, this paper tries to discuss about peer review process and its different types to communicate the early career researchers and academics.This paper has used the published and unpublished documents for information collection. It reveals that peer review places the reviewer, with the author, at the heart of scientific publishing. It is the system used to assess the quality of scientific research before it is published. Therefore, it concludes that peer review is used to advancing and testing scientific knowledgeas a quality control mechanism forscientists, publishers and the public.

National comparisons of early career researchers' scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 370-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid R. Jamali ◽  
David Nicholas ◽  
Eti Herman ◽  
Cherifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri ◽  
Abdullah Abrizah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

Academic Dishonesty and Online Classes: A Rural Education Perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane M. Sileo ◽  
Thomas W. Sileo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Student Behaviors ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Education Academic

Rural educators must possess high standards of ethical behavior that inform professional practice and improve the communities in which they live and work. The purposes of this article are to discuss rural education and its intersection with online classes as vehicles to meet residents' educational needs; ethical issues that surround online class delivery; and suggestions to deter academic dishonesty in online classes. Key Words: rural education, distance education, academic dishonesty, academic integrity, cheating, ethics, instructional practices, Internet, online instruction, student behaviors/attitude, teacher preparation, World Wide Web.

A global questionnaire survey of the scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours of early career researchers

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nicholas ◽  
Hamid R. Jamali ◽  
Eti Herman ◽  
Anthony Watkinson ◽  
Abdullah Abrizah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

Fundamentals of Data Collection in Clinical Studies: Simple Steps to Avoid “Garbage In, Garbage Out”

2020 ◽  
pp. 153473462093823
Author(s):  
José G. B. Derraik ◽  
Wason Parklak ◽  
Benjamin B. Albert ◽  
Kongsak Boonyapranai ◽  
Kittipan Rerkasem
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Early Career ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Collection And Management

Many fundamental steps underpin the delivery of high-quality clinical research. In this article, we provide a brief commentary on some important aspects associated with the collection and management of data during clinical studies, which, if overlooked, will lead to poor-quality research. In particular, we discuss the key aspects that should help early career researchers maximize the relevance and impact of their clinical research.

scholarly journals Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale, 8 September 1928 - 23 December 1985

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 21-45 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Programming ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Operational Research ◽  
Linear Programming Methods ◽  
Active Interest ◽  
Talented Mathematician ◽  
Scientific Adviser ◽  
High Standards

Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale was a talented mathematician at school and university. He became a pioneer in the development of linear programming methods at the Admiralty Research Laboratory (A.R.L.), Teddington. He then joined the Corporation for Economic and Industrial Research (C.E.I.R.) in 1961 in response to the challenge of applying operational research and mathematical programming to industrial problems. C.E.I.R. became Scicon (Scientific Control Systems Ltd) but Martin remained there, being its ‘Scientific Adviser' finally, a title that reflected his strong preference for advancing his subject in a benevolent way despite the commercial pressures of industry. Regularly on Mondays from 1967 he attended the Mathematics Department at Imperial College as a visiting professor. There, at conferences and in his published work, he communicated his extraordinary skill at extracting useful results computationally from mathematical models of real problems. Most of his papers on particular calculations and on particular techniques are substantial contributions to knowledge, but probably he will be remembered best for his constant and active interest in the development of mathematical programming systems for applying optimization algorithms painlessly in practice. He wrote (1961 c )* that ‘The most important part of operational research is educated common sense, and computers have absolutely no common sense’, but he planned his systems so well that this defect of computers was negligible. There are no secrets of his success as he believed in open publication of useful discoveries. In all ways he was generous and kind, subject to high standards of honesty and academic integrity. He was devoted to his family and to the Christian faith.

scholarly journals Awareness about plagiarism and the effectiveness of library literacy programme towards its deterrence: a perspective of postgraduate resident doctors

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad Khan ◽  
Joanna Richardson ◽  
Muhammad Izhar
Keyword(s):  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Literacy Programme ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Definition Of

Purpose Awareness about plagiarism is essential for the evasion of intellectual mendacity, inculcation of academic integrity and assurance of quality research. Maintaining high standards regarding academic integrity is a major challenge for higher education and research organizations. In Pakistan, resident doctors are required to submit a dissertation to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The purpose of this study is to examine this cohort’s awareness of plagiarism and to determine the effectiveness of the library literacy (IL) programme towards the prevention of plagiarism. Design/methodology/approach Using the quantitative approach, a cross-sectional survey method was used. A convenience sample of postgraduate resident doctors was randomly recruited from two hospitals in Peshawar, Pakistan. Questionnaires were used for data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analyses. Findings The findings revealed that while resident doctors were aware of the concept of plagiarism, there were variations in their definition of the term. That said, they perceived plagiarism as an unethical practice and supported the implementation of anti-plagiarism policies. However, the respondents’ knowledge was not strong regarding citation styles, specific anti-plagiarism policies and plagiarism penalties. Likewise, this cohort was unfamiliar with library IL activities and their role in the prevention of plagiarism. Finally, collaboration was absent among key stakeholders, e.g. resident doctors, research supervisors and librarians, to deter plagiarism. Research limitations/implications This study recommends collaboration among the key stakeholders to ensure the delivery of consistent messages and to reinforce the importance of plagiarism prevention. As this study was limited to two hospitals, similar research could be undertaken using a larger sample of resident doctors. It would also be useful to survey the librarians providing support for this cohort. Originality/value This study is the first attempt to examine the effectiveness of hospital library IL programmes in the prevention of plagiarism among resident doctors in Pakistan. The findings are applicable to other health libraries worldwide that wish to address the challenge of plagiarism among health researchers in general.

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