Evaluating the Research Quality of Education Journals in China: Implications for Increasing Global Impact in Peripheral Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juanjuan Zhao ◽  
Gulbahar H. Beckett ◽  
Lihshing Leigh Wang
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Research Scholarship

There has been a rapid growth of academic research and publishing in non-Western countries. However, academic journal articles in these peripheral countries suffer from low citation impact and limited global recognition. This critical review systematically analyzed 1,096 education research journal articles that were published in China in a 10-year span using a multistage stratified cluster and random sampling method and a validated rubric for assessing research quality. Our findings reveal that the vast majority of the articles lacked rigor, with insufficient or nonsystematic literature reviews, incomplete descriptions of research design, and inadequately grounded recommendations for translating research into practice. Acknowledging the differences in publishing cultures in the center-periphery divide, we argue that education research publications in non-Western countries should try to meet Western publishing standards in order to participate in global knowledge production and research vitality. Implications for emerging countries that strive to transform their research scholarship are discussed.

The pragmatic importance of theory for marketing practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 322-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Jack Rotfeld
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Marketing Practice ◽  
Content Type

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain that theories provide an important tool for practitioners in guiding decisions by explaining and predicting consumer decision making when new specific research data might be unavailable. This is true despite the problems caused by some academic journal articles’ use and abuse of theory development. The argument for this crucial role of theory in marketing practice explains reasons why many practitioners dislike academic research and related theory development, as well as points out where practitioners’ criticisms are valid. Design/methodology/approach – Delineation of problems in journal articles and some research notes the overall value of work for marketing practice and (indirectly) points out the important value of practitioner-focused research publications. Findings – While marketing practitioners are wrong to condemn all theory development as useless, too often in too many ways, researchers and journals deserve it. Yet, despite the problems, marketing practice needs marketing theory. Originality/value – This paper points out an ongoing common myopia of marketing practice, whereby practitioners miss out on the value of theory development.

scholarly journals A Corpus-Based Lexical Study of the Frequency, Coverage and Distribution of Academic Vocabulary in Islamic Academic Research Articles

2018 ◽  
pp. 570-577
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Word List ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Frequency Coverage ◽  
Lexical Study

This corpus-based lexical study aimed to explore the use of words in Coxhead (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) in academic journal articles in the field of Islamic studies. Around 472,621 word corpus, called the Islamic Academic Research Articles (IARA) corpus, was created for this study. The corpus consisted of 66 research articles written in English that were published in more than 10 different Islamic academic journals. Authentic and academic research articles written on Islam, and from Islamic perspectives, covering a wide range of topics, were selected. The study found that the most frequent 317 AWL words which occurred in the IARA corpus was only 56% of Coxhead’s AWL of 570 words. This finding points to the need for a special AWL for students. Findings suggest the need to produce field-specific academic word lists incorporating all frequent academic lexical items necessary for the expression of the rhetoric of the specific research area. Findings also revealed that some of the words which were found in the present study were not found in Coxhead’s Academic Word List. This suggests that vocabulary needs of students in Islamic studies are characteristically different from those of students in other disciplines.

scholarly journals Public-private collaboration and scientific impact: An analysis based on Danish publication data for 1995–2013

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carter Bloch ◽  
Thomas Kjeldager Ryan ◽  
Jens Peter Andersen
Keyword(s):  
International Collaboration ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Scientific Impact ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Academic Researchers

In the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in public-private collaboration, which has motivated lengthy discussion of the implications of collaboration in general, and co-authorship in particular, for the scientific impact of research. However, despite this strong interest in the topic, there is little systematic knowledge on the relation between public-private collaboration and citation impact. This paper examines the citation impact of papers involving public-private collaboration in comparison with academic research papers. We examine the role of a variety of factors, such as international collaboration, the number of co-authors, academic disciplines, and whether the research is mainly basic or applied. We first examine citation impact for a comprehensive dataset covering all Web of Science journal articles with at least one Danish author in the period 1995–2013. Thereafter, we examine whether citation impact for individual researchers differs when collaborating with industry compared to work only involving academic researchers, by looking at a fixed group of researchers that have both engaged in public-private collaborations and university-only publications. For national collaboration papers, we find no significant difference in citation impact for public-only and public-private collaborations. For international collaboration, we observe much higher citation impact for papers involving public-private collaboration.

Logical Connectors in the Discussion Sections of Research Journal Articles

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
_ DJUWARI
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Logical Connectors

In research articles (RAs), the writers always express their arguments especially in discussion section. In this case, most of the writers tend to relate one idea to another to make their ideas coherent. This research article is done to investigate the logical connectors used by the writers of research articles, especially the logical connectors of three categories: logical connectors, frame markers, and Code Glosses. These linguistic devices are commonly used by the writers in academic or research articles (RAs). This is a qualitative research using the documents for analysis. These documents are taken from the research articles published in the academic journals which are collected by means of purposive sampling from the discussion sections of the RAs. The instrument used is called Taxonomy of Textual Meta-discourse. The results show that the writers have different strategies in using the logical connectors depending on which point they relate the ideas in the discussion sections. The results are expected to provide the readers with some logical connectors and some perspectives of the strategies of using logical connectors in research writing especially in the discussion sections. It is recommended that the research writers use logical connectors for making the ideas coherent.Keywords: Linguistics, logical connectors, frame markers, code glosses, Textual Metadiscourseanalysis, academic journal articles, research articles (RAs), Indonesia

scholarly journals The Academic Journal: Has it a Future?

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaby Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Equity And Access ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future

This article examines the current state of the academic journal. It does so for a number of reasons: the increasing expense of paper journals; the advent of electronic publishing; the use of publication in journals as an indicator of research quality (in addition to disseminating knowledge within a discipline) and consequent criticisms of systems of peer review and evaluation of scholarship; emergent issues of equity and access; and evidence of malpractice. These issues taken together constitute a critique of, and challenge to, the process whereby research papers become journal articles, which has in the past been viewed as unproblematic and straightforward. This paper brings together a wide range of literature in order to inform discussion about the future of the academic journal. It briefly examines the origins of the academic journal and then provides a comprehensive overview of current debates concerning how academic journals work today. In so doing, it raises questions about decisions that will need to be taken regarding the continuity or otherwise of the conventional academic journal, and how publishing practices may change in the future.

Successful Journey of a Research Journal: Intrapreneurship, Branding, and the Making of an Academic Journal

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagai Gringarten ◽  
Lisa J. Knowles ◽  
Raul Fernandez-Calienes
Keyword(s):  
Academic Journal ◽  
Research Journal

On everyday academic research

2017 ◽  
pp. 98-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Tirole
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
The Common ◽  
Verification Of Models ◽  
Science And Research

In the fourth chapter of the book “The economy of the common good”, the nature of economics as a science and research practices in their theoretical and empirical aspects are discussed. The author considers the processes of modeling, empirical verification of models and evaluation of research quality. In addition, the features of economic cognition and the role of mathematics in economic research are analyzed, including the example of relevant research in game theory and information theory.

Statistics Education Research Journal

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-58
Author(s):  
Flavia Jolliffe ◽  
Iddo Gal
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Statistics Education Research ◽  
Research Journal

Evaluating Qualitative Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeasik Cho
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Grant Proposals

This book provides the qualitative research community with some insight on how to evaluate the quality of qualitative research. This topic has gained little attention during the past few decades. We, qualitative researchers, read journal articles, serve on masters’ and doctoral committees, and also make decisions on whether conference proposals, manuscripts, or large-scale grant proposals should be accepted or rejected. It is assumed that various perspectives or criteria, depending on various paradigms, theories, or fields of discipline, have been used in assessing the quality of qualitative research. Nonetheless, until now, no textbook has been specifically devoted to exploring theories, practices, and reflections associated with the evaluation of qualitative research. This book constructs a typology of evaluating qualitative research, examines actual information from websites and qualitative journal editors, and reflects on some challenges that are currently encountered by the qualitative research community. Many different kinds of journals’ review guidelines and available assessment tools are collected and analyzed. Consequently, core criteria that stand out among these evaluation tools are presented. Readers are invited to join the author to confidently proclaim: “Fortunately, there are commonly agreed, bold standards for evaluating the goodness of qualitative research in the academic research community. These standards are a part of what is generally called ‘scientific research.’ ”

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