scholarly journals Editorial

Contention ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vii
Author(s):  
Giovanni A. Travaglino ◽  
Benjamin Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Reference Index

Contention has now reached its eighth volume and fifteenth issue, and we have been delighted to see the journal move from attainment to attainment over the past eight years. Contention has developed a reputation for publishing high-quality research, articles, and analyses in the fields of social protest, collective action, and contentious politics, soliciting contributions from world-leading scholars and early career academics alike. Its articles are strongly interdisciplinary and global in nature, with the journal offering a platform for research that crosses old-fashioned national and theoretical boundaries. We were delighted to see such merits recognized by the recent inclusion of Contention in the SCOPUS database. Together with the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences, where the journal is already indexed, the inclusion of Contention in SCOPUS will bring further visibility to the scholarly work we publish, facilitating its diffusion by providing an even stronger opportunity to contribute to international scholarly dialogue.

scholarly journals Patterns of the Network of Cross-Border University Research Collaboration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 6846
Author(s):  
Jinyuan Ma ◽  
Fan Jiang ◽  
Liujian Gu ◽  
Xiang Zheng ◽  
Xiao Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Industrial Distribution

This study analyzes the patterns of university co-authorship networks in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. It also examines the quality and subject distribution of co-authored articles within these networks. Social network analysis is used to outline the structure and evolution of the networks that have produced co-authored articles at universities in the Greater Bay Area from 2014 to 2018, at both regional and institutional levels. Field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) is used to analyze the quality and citation impact of co-authored articles in different subject fields. The findings of the study reveal that university co-authorship networks in the Greater Bay Area are still dispersed, and their disciplinary development is unbalanced. The study also finds that, while the research areas covered by high-quality co-authored articles fit the strategic needs of technological innovation and industrial distribution in the Greater Bay Area, high-quality research collaboration in the humanities and social sciences is insufficient.

scholarly journals The Squash Blossom

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Paweł Jędrzejko
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Reference Index ◽  
Online Library ◽  
The University ◽  
Recent Evaluation ◽  
People Today

Thanks to the unswerving dedication of a small, but enthusiastic group of people, today the Review of International American Studies is indexed in the prestigious Elsevier Scopus database and features in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH+); it has its own profile in the Index Copernicus Journal Master List with the Index Copernicus Value (ICV) for 2017 of 77.29 (per 100!). But there is more: recently the RIAS received an “A” class category in the parametric evaluation of the Italian Ministry of Science and was granted as many as 20 parametric points in the most recent evaluation of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Our distribution flourishes as well: electronic copies of our journal (both full issues and individual articles) are now available to the readers in hundreds of libraries world-wide via the Central and Eastern European Online Library, an important German content and metadata aggregator run by Wolfgang and Bea Klotz and operating from Frankfurt am Main. Likewise, owing to the steadfast loyalty of Beata Klyta, the indefatigable director of the University of Silesia Press and a major champion of our cause, the RIAS is now available in such renowned repositories as CEJSH, BAZHUM or POLINDEX, which institutions render our texts visible to the reading public world-wide.

Race and Racism in Nursing Research: Past, Present, and Future

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
CORNELIA P. PORTER ◽  
EVELYN BARBEE
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Observational Research ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
The Past

Nursing research on race and racism began in the 1970s. However, because these concepts were seen as cultural attitudes, race and racism were obscured. The evidence on the presence of negative attitudes, biases, and stereotypes about different racial and ethnic groups is inconsistent. During the past two decades, research on race and racism has grown, but there is still an urgent need for more high-quality research on this subject. The major recommendations from this review are to conduct observational research on racism in clinical and practice settings, not as an intellectual end in itself; to assist in eliminating of the historically based disparities among members of racial and ethnic groups; and to conduct research about racism as it affects mobility in educational and practice settings.

scholarly journals Organisational and technological skills: The overlooked dimension of research training

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Phelps ◽  
Kath Fisher ◽  
Allan Ellis
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Early Career ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Technological Skills ◽  
Research Students

<span>Over the last three decades new technologies have emerged that have the capacity to considerably streamline the research and publication process and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of research. This paper argues that to achieve high quality research training in the context of today's government and industry priorities, there must be a renewed focus on the organisational and technological skills that are appropriate to research. It reports on a survey of both researchers in training (higher degree research students) and early career researchers across a number of Australian institutions. The study revealed moderate levels of confidence in these areas but also found strong evidence that researchers see these aspects of research as very important and that they require greater knowledge, skills and support. The paper recommends inclusion of these organisational and technological aspects of research in research training programs and that higher education institutions take seriously the importance of such skills and do not assume that beginning researchers are already adequately trained in these skills.</span>

The Ethnographic Method in CSR Research: The Role and Importance of Methodological Fit

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Erin Bass ◽  
Ivana Milosevic
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Society Research

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research has burgeoned in the past several decades. Despite significant advances, our review of the literature reveals a problematic gap: We know little about how culture, practices, and interactions shape CSR. On further investigation, we discover that limited research utilizes ethnography to understand CSR, which may provide some explanation for this gap. Thus, the purpose of this article is to illustrate the utility of ethnography for advancing business and society research via a multistage framework that demonstrates how three different types of ethnography may be applied to the exploration of CSR. We specifically focus on the alignment between stages in the research process, or methodological fit, as a key criterion of high-quality research. In doing so, we provide researchers embracing different worldviews a tool they may utilize to conduct and evaluate ethnographies in business and society research.

scholarly journals Two Decades of Research in e-Learning: A Deep Bibliometric Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 398-404
Author(s):  
Sónia Rolland Sobral ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Physical Separation ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
E Learning

E-learning is the electronic version of distance learning: a planned teaching that presupposes a physical separation between the teacher and the student. The distance is either geographic or temporal, and communication can be asynchronous or synchronous, respectively. E-learning has been a target of high-quality research for the last two decades. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the scientific production on e-learning in journals indexed on Elsevier’s Scopus. The sample was composed by 25330 articles from 2000 to 2019. The results obtained by bibliometric analysis showed that rates publication continue to increase. A report was made on the journals, languages, authors, keywords, organizations and countries that publish in the field. This analysis was done for all articles as well as for the most cited articles. The bibliometric analysis was done for a total of 20 years, as well as for four 5-year periods. This article provides information from the past, but mostly clues about research on e-learning in the future.

scholarly journals Organisational and technological skills: The overlooked dimension of research training

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Phelps ◽  
Kath Fisher ◽  
Allan Ellis
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Early Career ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Technological Skills ◽  
Research Students

<span>Over the last three decades new technologies have emerged that have the capacity to considerably streamline the research and publication process and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of research. This paper argues that to achieve high quality research training in the context of today's government and industry priorities, there must be a renewed focus on the organisational and technological skills that are appropriate to research. It reports on a survey of both researchers in training (higher degree research students) and early career researchers across a number of Australian institutions. The study revealed moderate levels of confidence in these areas but also found strong evidence that researchers see these aspects of research as very important and that they require greater knowledge, skills and support. The paper recommends inclusion of these organisational and technological aspects of research in research training programs and that higher education institutions take seriously the importance of such skills and do not assume that beginning researchers are already adequately trained in these skills.</span>

τeκτoniκa, a journal for an open future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Gouiza ◽  
David Fernández Blanco ◽  
Clare Bond ◽  
Dave McCarthy ◽  
Amicia Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Geology ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Open Future ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Internet Publishing ◽  
Access To Knowledge

&lt;p&gt;&amp;#964;e&amp;#954;&amp;#964;oni&amp;#954;a is an up-coming community-led diamond open access (DOA) journal, which aims to publish high-quality research in structural geology and tectonics. It is a grass-roots community-driven initiative that relies on the involvement of Earth Scientists from around the globe; that together represent the wide and diverse spectrum of the structural geology and tectonics community.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beyond the obvious objective of publishing novel research on structural geology and tectonics, it is intended to offer an alternative to traditional publishing models, which hide scholarly work behind exclusive and expensive paywalls. &amp;#964;e&amp;#954;&amp;#964;oni&amp;#954;a is a new addition to the growing set of DOA journals that have appeared in recent years. Along with preprint platforms, data and software repositories, it is part of an expanding movement within academia focused on breaking the barriers inherited from the pre-internet publishing era, to ensure free and open access to knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This contribution aims to showcase the value of this ambitious project as well as our vision for how DOA journals in general (and Tektonika in particular) might shape the future of geoscience publishing.&lt;/p&gt;

scholarly journals Introduction and Overview

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Margaret L. Kern ◽  
Michael L. Wehmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Positive Education ◽  
Research To Practice ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
Positive Perspective ◽  
Open Dialogue

AbstractOver the past decade, the positive education movement has grown, with the rapid increase of research, curricula, programs, and approaches to supporting wellbeing within educational communities. We introduce positive education, unpacking the positive perspective, considering how positive education emerged from this perspective, and discussing the implications moving forward. We then provide an overview of the chapters within this Handbook. Aligned with the valuing of open dialogue and diverse perspectives, authors provide various definitions of, perspectives around, and approaches to positive education. The Handbook attempts to give light to the plurality of models and perspectives, highlights high-quality research and research-to-practice efforts, incorporates a broad range of topics, and includes international and multi-disciplinary approaches. As a whole, the Handbook aims to support collective efforts to create and shape educational environments that allow all members of our educational communities to thrive, both now and for future generations.

scholarly journals More journal articles and fewer books: publication practices in the social sciences in the 2010’s

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Savage ◽  
Anthony J. Olejniczak
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Publication Output ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Publication Practices

Over the past few years, the rate of journal article publication has increased in most academic disciplines - in some cases more than doubling in the past decade. While journal articles are the de facto currency of knowledge production in many science disciplines, social science scholars routinely publish books as well as journal articles. The social sciences have also undergone a rapid transformation towards more quantitative methodologies, thus representing a unique opportunity to study the increased rate of journal article publication in an area where books are also an important mode of dissemination. We studied the publishing activity of social sciences faculty members in 12 disciplines at 290 Ph.D. granting institutions in the United States between 2011 and 2019. In all disciplines, journal articles per person increased between 2011 and 2019 by between 3% and 64%, while books per person decreased by at least 31% and as much as 54%. Overall, early career researchers show the largest increase in rates of journal article production, while senior scholars show the greatest increase in participation in journal article production. Younger scholars appear to have greater publication output, while growing numbers of older scholars turn towards journal articles as a means of disseminating their work in the social sciences. We observe growing uniformity in the disciplinary literatures of the social sciences, which increasingly resemble the physical and biological sciences in terms of publication practices.

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