scholarly journals Online Research Output Submission System as a mechanism to influence publication citations: A pilot study

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reetha Nundulall
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Online Research ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
Study Results

Background: Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) need to ensure that the education provided meets the student’s and employer’s requirements, for today and the future. However, in addition to the challenges of teaching and learning, internationalisation, globalisation and world university rankings are rearing their heads thus increasing the demands made on many HEIs.Objective: One of the ways in which HEIs can make their mark is through world university rankings. This may be achieved by exposing more information on new and innovative research knowledge to the broader community in the global market via research publications that attract citations on open access platforms, hence influencing the university’s ranking. For this purpose and intent, a ‘simple’ and ‘easy-to-use’ online web tool was developed at a HEI. The aim was to have research publications submitted via the Online Research Output Submission System (OROSS) tool, screened and deposited in the institution’s open access database.Method: Training was provided to the relevant participants and a survey was conducted to ascertain the participants’ perceptions about the utilisation of the OROSS tool and the training provided.Conclusion: This article reflects on the pilot phase of a longitudinal study. Results of an evaluation conducted by the researcher of the OROSS application from a user perspective (process) are highlighted. In general, users rated OROSS favourably in terms of it being a useful, simple and easy-to-use web-based tool. The findings of this study may assist University of Johannesburg’s executive management in deciding the fate of the OROSS tool for future use.

The Future of Indian Universities

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities

The Indian higher education system commanded awe and respect in the ancient world. Important seats of learning like Nalanda and Takshashila attracted the best students and academics from across the globe. Unfortunately, over a period of time, our higher education system lost its global competitiveness. This is exemplified by the fact that not many Indian higher education institutions feature in the annual world university rankings like the Times Higher Education World University Rankings or the QS World University Rankings. At the same time, India’s aspirations to establish world-class universities have never been greater. The book is a culmination of a range of ideas and perspectives that will shape India’s aspirations of building world-class universities through comparative and international dimensions. It is a recognition that the future of Indian universities and their ability to seek global excellence will depend on three critical paradigms: first is the need for creating a vision for higher education that will focus on research and knowledge creation, institutional excellence, and global benchmarking as the indicators for standard-setting; second, the need for pursuing substantial reforms relating to policy, regulation, and governance of higher education; and third is the need for investigating a paradigmatic shift for promoting interdisciplinarity in higher education with a stronger and deeper focus on the pedagogy of teaching and learning in different fields of inquiry. Through a series of contributions from noted academics and scholars from India and around the world, this book discusses these three strings of thought, to create higher education opportunities that will enable the future generations of students to pursue world-class education in world-class universities in India.

scholarly journals The foreign experience analysis of research information support based on bibliometric methods A. S. Pavlova

Bibliosphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Pavlova
Keyword(s):  
Information Services ◽  
Information Support ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Research Information ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Information Products ◽  
Support Of Research ◽  
Foreign Universities

The article presents the analysis of opportunities of bibliometric methods for information support of research in leading foreign universities according to the world ratings of QS World University Rankings and Academic Ranking of World Universities. The study made it possible to identify information services and information products provided using bibliometric (or scientometric) data and methods in foreign universities, to determine their characteristics, as well as to define the information resources and tools most frequently used to provide selected information services. According to the study results the author reveals the following blocks of the service model of research information support based on bibliometric methods and data in the studied foreign universities.

scholarly journals Transição na Carreira Desportiva: Guião de Entrevista para Atletas (TCD-GEA)

Motricidade ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nuno Domingos Garrido
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
The Times ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Sports Sciences

<p>The Journal Motricidade has always been walking in parallel with the scientific communities.</p><p>We found that the affiliation of most authors has, nearly always, a University (Uni) or a Research Center (RC). In fact it is almost impossible to conduct research outside these two universes. In this sense, Uni and RC feed the most, if not all, of scientific journals worldwide. By this I mean that is in the interest of Motricidade to be associated with high-quality RC and Uni equally recognized.</p><p>With regard to RC, Motricidade will publish this year a supplement of the International Congress of Research Centre in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD). This RC has conducted research in a variety of areas within the Sport Sciences and Health and always with high recognition and associated publications. It was not by chance that this RC was evaluated with ‘very good’ by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) panel and has been granted funding.</p><p>This Congress, which takes place every two years, targets to converge research and high level practices within these three areas: Sports, Health and Human Development. The 2016 CIDESD edition is dedicated to "Exercise and Health, Sports and Human Development" and will be held at the University of Évora, between 11 and 12 November of 2016. The readers can check the program in the following link <a href="http://gdoc.uevora.pt/450120" target="_blank">http://gdoc.uevora.pt/450120</a> and get more information in the Congress Site available at <a href="http://www.cidesd2016.uevora.pt/">http://www.cidesd2016.uevora.pt/</a>.</p><p>With regard to Uni, Motricidade signed a cooperation protocol with the University of Beira Interior (UBI) in May of 2016, involving the development and dissemination of scientific knowledge in Sports Sciences, Psychology, Human Development and Health.</p><p>At the present, UBI hosts more than 6,000 students spread across five faculties - Arts &amp; Letters, Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences and Engineering.</p><p>When looking at the rankings, for instance the Times Higher Education (THE), v.2016-17 (<a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/universidade-da-beira-interior#ranking-dataset/589595">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/universidade-da-beira-interior#ranking-dataset/589595</a>), we can see that UBI is growing, mostly in Research publications, in other words, on the number of research publications, where at least one author is affiliated to the university (<a href="http://www.umultirank.org/#!/home?trackType=home&amp;sightMode=undefined">http://www.umultirank.org/#!/home?trackType=home&amp;sightMode=undefined</a>).</p><p>We hope to contribute to maintain or increase this number of publications, since among the various clauses drawn up, in order to encourage research with publication in peer review journals, it was agreed that any manuscript submitted and accepted for publication, whose author or collaborators are affiliated with UBI is due half the rate of publication.</p><p>Union makes us stronger.</p>

scholarly journals A Multicriteria Goal Programming Model for Ranking Universities

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 459
Author(s):  
Fernando García ◽  
Francisco Guijarro ◽  
Javier Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Goal Programming ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Central Tendency ◽  
Performance Variables ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
Goal Programming Model ◽  
Objective Quantification

This paper proposes the use of a goal programming model for the objective ranking of universities. This methodology has been successfully used in other areas to analyze the performance of firms by focusing on two opposite approaches: (a) one favouring those performance variables that are aligned with the central tendency of the majority of the variables used in the measurement of the performance, and (b) an alternative one that favours those different, singular, or independent performance variables. Our results are compared with the ranking proposed by two popular World University Rankings, and some insightful differences are outlined. We show how some top-performing universities occupy the best positions regardless of the approach followed by the goal programming model, hence confirming their leadership. In addition, our proposal allows for an objective quantification of the importance of each variable in the performance of universities, which could be of great interest to decision-makers.

Institutional repositories in Africa: Regaining direction

2021 ◽  
pp. 026666692110154
Author(s):  
Usman Ahmed Adam ◽  
Kiran Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Current Status ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Widespread Implementation ◽  
Typical Performance ◽  
The Status ◽  
Global Access ◽  
And Cluster Analysis

Institutional repositories are powerful tools to facilitate global access to intellectual output by members of the institution, particularly in assisting them to preserve and maximize access to their research output globally. This exploratory study of the status of institutional repositories implementation in African countries using the global Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and Transparent Ranking: All Repositories by Google Scholar, reports on the operational status and the performance of repositories. Factor analysis and cluster analysis are used to analyze the operational level of institutional repositories in African countries. The analysis showed that the typical performance of institutional repositories remains below average. The possibility of global open access to research results through institutional repositories in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Algeria, Sudan, and Egypt appeared to be relatively more feasible than other African countries. This study concludes that many organizations, institutions, and societies spend great efforts in support of open access implementation in Africa, however, the widespread implementation of institutional repositories is still very slow paced, and the performance of the implemented repositories was below expectation. Suggestions for regaining the intended direction of African institutional repositories are given based on the current status.

scholarly journals The Quality of Statistical Reporting and Data Presentation in Predatory Dental Journals Was Lower Than in Non-Predatory Journals

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 468
Author(s):  
Pentti Nieminen ◽  
Sergio E. Uribe
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Highly Cited

Proper peer review and quality of published articles are often regarded as signs of reliable scientific journals. The aim of this study was to compare whether the quality of statistical reporting and data presentation differs among articles published in ‘predatory dental journals’ and in other dental journals. We evaluated 50 articles published in ‘predatory open access (OA) journals’ and 100 clinical trials published in legitimate dental journals between 2019 and 2020. The quality of statistical reporting and data presentation of each paper was assessed on a scale from 0 (poor) to 10 (high). The mean (SD) quality score of the statistical reporting and data presentation was 2.5 (1.4) for the predatory OA journals, 4.8 (1.8) for the legitimate OA journals, and 5.6 (1.8) for the more visible dental journals. The mean values differed significantly (p < 0.001). The quality of statistical reporting of clinical studies published in predatory journals was found to be lower than in open access and highly cited journals. This difference in quality is a wake-up call to consume study results critically. Poor statistical reporting indicates wider general lower quality in publications where the authors and journals are less likely to be critiqued by peer review.

scholarly journals Researchers' perspectives on open access scholarly communication in Tanzanian public universities

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
F.W. Dulle ◽  
M.K. Minishi-Majanja
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Recognition Quality ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
Research Findings

This research explored the awareness, usage and perspectives of Tanzanian researchers on open access as a mode of scholarly communication. A survey questionnaire targeted 544 respondents selected through stratified random sampling from a population of 1088 university researchers of the six public universities in Tanzania. With a response rate of 73%, the data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The study reveals that the majority of the researchers were aware of and were positive towards open access. Findings further indicate that the majority of researchers in Tanzanian public universities used open access outlets more to access scholarly content than to disseminate their own research findings. It seems that most of these researchers would support open access publishing more if issues of recognition, quality and ownership were resolved. Thus many of them supported the idea of establishing institutional repositories at their respective universities as a way of improving the dissemination of local content. The study recommends that public universities and other research institutions in the country should consider establishing institutional repositories, with appropriate quality assurance measures, to improve the dissemination of research output emanating from these institutions.

scholarly journals Open access for operational research publications from lowand middle-income countries: who pays?

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Zachariah ◽  
A. M. V. Kumar ◽  
A. J. Reid ◽  
R. Van den Bergh ◽  
P. Isaakidis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Operational Research ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Research Publications
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