scholarly journals International attractiveness of undergraduate and postgraduate studies: is scientific production a determining factor?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Blanco Mendialdua ◽  
Virginia Rincón-Díez ◽  
Jon Barrutia-Güenaga
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
International Demand ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Determining Factor

The main objective of this research is to identify the influence of the scientific production of universities on their international demand. Specifically, we study whether the level of international demand, and the origin of this demand, is conditioned by the volume and quality of the scientific publications produced by Universities. In order to identify the influence of the volume of scientific production of the universities on their international demand, we have carried out various analyses of variance, using as a dependent variable the international demand and as an independent variable the volume of publications per professor and also the impact of these publications. According to the results obtained, some international demand variables present significant differences depending on the number of scientific publications per university professor. Furthermore, these results show that there are no significant differences in the international attractiveness of postgraduate studies according to the impact of the scientific output of the universities. Given these results, we cannot conclude that the quality of scientific production of the Universities is a determining factor in attracting students from other countries. This first study points to a necessary reorientation of the requirements on university teaching staff if the international attractiveness of Spanish universities needs to be increased. 

scholarly journals PRODUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA: AVALIAÇÃO, FERRAMENTAS E INDICADORES DE QUALIDADE

PontodeAcesso ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Lívia Renata Santos ◽  
Denise Maria Rover da Silva Rabelo
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Quality Indicators ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
International Level ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
De Se ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Impact

Resumo: O presente artigo retrata através de uma revisão bibliográfica as fragilidades das publicações científicas nos dias atuais, bem como o impacto das publicações brasileiras a nível mundial. Tem como objetivo identificar os indicadores de qualidade que as entidades recomendam às publicações científicas em âmbito nacional e internacional como: Qualis, ISI, SciELO, agências de fomento e autores da literatura. O trabalho também ressalta a importância de se avaliar os periódicos científicos on-line como forma de manutenção da qualidade, e recomenda um formulário de avaliação para o mesmo. Palavras-chave: Fragilidades de publicações científicas. Indicadores de qualidade. Avaliação de periódicos científicos on-line. SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION: TOOLS AND QUALITY INDICATORS Abstract: This article shows through a literature review the weaknesses of scientific publications today, and the impact of Brazilian publications worldwide. Aims to identify the quality’s indicators that authorities recommend to scientific publications in national and international level as Qualis, ISI, SciELO, fomentation agencies and literature’s authors. The work also observes the importance of on-line scientific journals evaluating with the quality of maintenance of way and recommend an evaluation form for it. Keywords: Weaknesses of scientific publications. Quality indicators. Scientific on-line journal evaluation.

Correlation of Altmetric Attention Scores with Citations in Major Pharmacy Journals (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave L Dixon ◽  
William L Baker
Keyword(s):  
Citation Count ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Article Type ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND The impact and quality of a faculty members publications is a key factor in promotion and tenure decisions and career advancement. Traditional measures, including citation counts and journal impact factor, have notable limitations. Since 2010, alternative metrics have been proposed as another means of assessing the impact and quality of scholarly work. The Altmetric Attention Score is an objective score frequently used to determine the immediate reach of a published work across the web, including news outlets, blogs, social media, and more. Several studies evaluating the correlation between the Altmetric Attention Score and number of citations have found mixed results and may be discipline-specific. OBJECTIVE To determine the correlation between higher Altmetric Attention Scores and citation count for journal articles published in major pharmacy journals. METHODS This cross-sectional study evaluated articles from major pharmacy journals ranked in the top 10% according to the Altmetric Attention Score. Sources of attention that determined the Altmetric Attention Score were obtained, as well each articles open access status, article type, study design, and topic. Correlation between journal characteristics, including the Altmetric Attention Score and number of citations, was assessed using the Spearman’s correlation test. A Kruskal-Wallis 1-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare the Altmetric Attention Scores between journals. RESULTS Six major pharmacy journals were identified. A total of 1,376 articles were published in 2017 and 137 of these represented the top 10% with the highest Altmetric Attention Scores. The median Altmetric Attention Score was 19 (IQR 15-28). Twitter and Mendeley were the most common sources of attention. Over half (56.2%) of the articles were original investigations and 49.8% were either cross-sectional, qualitative, or cohort studies. No significant correlation was found between the Altmetric Attention Score and citation count (rs=0.07, P = 0.485). Mendeley was the only attention source that correlated with the number of citations (rs=0.486, P<0.001). The median Altmetric Attention Score varied widely between each journal (P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS The overall median Altmetric Attention score of 19 suggests articles published in major pharmacy journals are near the top 5% of all scientific output. However, we found no correlation between the Altmetric Attention Score and number of citations for articles published in major pharmacy journals in the year 2017.

Scientific journal in the educational space of the university

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-145
Author(s):  
Akhurbek А. Magometov ◽  
Boris A. Takhokhov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Perspective View ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The article presents the authors ‘view on the activities of the scientific journal” Bulletin of the North Ossetian State University named after K. L. Khetagurov”. The relevance of the article is due to a significant increase in the role of research work of teachers and students of universities and the requirements for their publication activity; the importance for the university of having highly rated scientific journals and the increasing importance of the scientific publication of the university for improving the training of students. At the scientific and theoretical level, the changes that were determined by the modernization of education in the country and the need to improve the quality of scientific publications in accordance with the vector of development of international high-ranking publications and the desire of the university management and the editorial board to keep the journal in the trend of modern science are understood. Attention is paid to the problem of evaluating and reviewing scientific articles, the idea of the impact of reviews on the development of scientific knowledge is justified; the systematic work of the editorial board on the introduction of scientific research into the educational process of the university is shown. The new tasks of the editorial board are considered, the solution of which will contribute to improving the quality of the publication and the research activities of the teaching staff and students of the university. The purpose of the work is to substantiate the author’s approach to the current state, functioning and perspective view of the development of the university scientific publication and to determine its place in the modern scientific and educational space. The research methodology is based on systematic, activity-based and culturological approaches using such methods as systematization, generalization, analysis, description and comparison.

scholarly journals Evaluating the performance of teaching staff members, a step towards teaching performance development of higher education in Sebha University

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Zamzam Amhimmid Mare
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Analytic Description ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Performance Development ◽  
The University

This study aims to show the importance of evaluating the teaching performance level of the University teaching members. It also aims to provide the suggested mechanisms for evaluating the teaching performance of the teaching staff members of Sebha University. This study was based mainly on documents and analytic description to collect information about the importance and ways of evaluating teachers with reference to some of the international experiences on teaching performance development. This study concluded that the absence of an experienced entity that would develop the teaching performance of faculty members is one of the main reasons for the weak teaching performance at Sebha University. Based on the results of the study, it is recommended that there should be a planned system based on measured standards and criteria for evaluating staff members to improve the quality of teaching in the higher education domain. 

scholarly journals Correlation between scientific production and democracy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderic Guigo
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
Positive Correlation

There is a strong positive correlation between the quality of democracy and the scientific output of countries. The correlation remains even after correcting for research spending.

scholarly journals On teaching styles of water educators and the impact of didactic training

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 3677-3688 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Pathirana ◽  
J. H. Koster ◽  
E. de Jong ◽  
S. Uhlenbrook
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Certification Program ◽  
Didactic Training ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Solving today's complex hydrological problems requires originality, creative thinking and trans-disciplinary approaches. Hydrological education that was traditionally teacher centred, where the students look up to the teacher for expertise and information, should change to better prepare hydrologists to develop new knowledge and apply it in new contexts. An important first step towards this goal is to change the concept of education in the educators' minds. The results of an investigation to find out whether didactic training influences the beliefs of hydrology educators about their teaching styles is presented. Faculty of UNESCO-IHE has been offered a didactic certification program named university teaching qualification (UTQ). The hypothesis that UTQ training will significantly alter the teaching style of faculty at UNESCO-IHE from expert/formal authority traits towards facilitator/delegator traits was tested. A first survey was conducted among the entire teaching staff (total 101, response rate 58%). The results indicated that there are significantly higher traits of facilitator and delegator teaching styles among UTQ graduates compared to faculty who were not significantly trained in didactics. The second survey which was conducted among UTQ graduates (total 20, response rate 70%), enquiring after their teaching styles before and after UTQ, corroborated these findings.

New scientometric indicator for the qualitative evaluation of scientific production

2015 ◽  
Vol 116 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 661-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nedra Ibrahim ◽  
Anja Habacha Chaibi ◽  
Mohamed Ben Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Production Quality ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Scientometric Indicator ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Quality Of Research

Purpose – This paper aims to propose a new qualitative indicator for the evaluation of the productions of researchers in any discipline. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the study of existing quantitative indicators, the authors’ approach consisted of the hybridization of two indicators. This hybridization is based on the individual H_index (Hi_index) and H_index contemporary (Hc_index) weighted by qualitative factors. The initial sources of the data are online bibliographic databases, such as Google Scholar and Publish or Perish. Findings – A new scientometric indicator was used to compare the scientific production quality of researchers and their classification (as part of a research community) as the classification of national and international research institutions. The authors have applied a new indicator to compare and classify the members of their laboratory, RIADI, according to their quality of scientific production. Practical implications – The indicator is an improvement of the H_index. It is a measure that can have an impact on society (influencing research attitudes, affecting quality of research). By this contribution, the authors measure more than one aspect by involving all the external factors that can affect the quality of research. Originality/value – This paper fulfils a gap in the literature concerning the absence of a qualitative indicator among the set of existing quantitative measures. Additionally, this paper addresses the limitations of the existing qualitative practices, such as peer review and citation analysis. In the new qualitative indicator, the authors involve all of these qualitative aspects: the influence of the age of the paper, the number of co-authors, the order of the co-authors, the impact factor of journals and the conference rankings.

scholarly journals Privatisation of Socially Owned Enterprises, the Methods Used and the Impact on Economic Growth Empirical evidence from Kosovo

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ujkan Bajra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Aggregate Level ◽  
Quality Of Institutions ◽  
Panel Effects ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Determining Factor

Abstract Privatisation together with the related social consequences and impact on the economy represent key challenges facing the former communist countries. This paper aims to assess how the privatisation of socially owned enterprises (SOEs) affects economic growth, entailing an empirical test using a panel effects regression analysis on a sample of 571 SOEs (or 1,600 assets) over a 16-year period (2003–2018). We find that privatisation at the aggregate level does not boost economic growth; in particular, the methods used to privatise SOEs or parts of them are not a determining factor. We also show that the quality of institutions is fragile, confirming a negative associations with economic growth. We also show that the effects of privatisation vary according to the method used, although we note that the sale of SOEs or parts thereof in the first decade of privatisation has been quite selective, devoid of development effects and faced with serious impediments to privatisation funds being directly invested in the economy.

scholarly journals Impact of the Psychological Testing Assessment System (SATEPSI) for Scientific Publications in Psychological Assessment

Psico-USF ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Mansur-Alves ◽  
Renata Saldanha Silva ◽  
Sthefanie Carvalho de Ávila Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Psychological Tests ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
First Century ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Psychological Instruments ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The strengthening of psychological assessment in Brazil in the twenty-first century can be understood as a result of the foundation of Psychological Test Evaluation System (SATEPSI, its Portuguese acronym) by Resolution 02/2003 of the Federal Council of Psychology. In this sense, the present study aimed to describe the impact of SATEPSI for research in the area. A survey of Brazilian researchers' publications was conducted in two periods in SciELO and BVS-Psi databases - 1993-2002 and 2003-2014 - using the terms "psychological evaluation", "psychological tests" and "construction / adaptation of psychological instruments". Overall, the results point to the positive impact of SATEPSI for the area of psychological assessment. It was observed an increasing in quantity and quality of publications, as well as a greater variety of psychological tests used in different contexts. It can be concluded that the pursued goals of the Resolution 02/2003 were mostly achieved.

scholarly journals Nursing Assistance At The Puerperium: Integrative Review

10.3823/2295 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabryella Moreira Menezes de Lima ◽  
Hallana De Lima Teles ◽  
Patrícia Pereira Tavares Alcântara ◽  
Maria Regilânia Lopes Moreira ◽  
Antonio Germane Alves Pinto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Care ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Physiological Changes ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Moment

INTRODUCTION: The Puerperium is a critical time for the woman, her baby and her family, due to psychological and physiological changes. At that moment, the woman experiences significant changes and needs qualified attention in health. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research is to describe the scientific production on nursing care in the postpartum period, justifying that the woman, at the moment, undergoes many changes requiring a qualified attention. METHOD: The methodology used was the integrative review of the literature on nursing care in the puerperal period, in the databases of articles and scientific publications, present in the Virtual Health Library, from 2008 to 2014. RESULTS: The results highlight the importance of Nursing during puerperal care to resolve and improve the quality of life of puerperal patients.  

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