Abstract
Russian universities are trying to promote their scientific journals in international citation bases and are making attempts to publish their journals in English. The aim of the study is to examine how can this strategy help to increase the international visibility of Russian tax research and tax journals. The literature review was conducted to investigate the role of scientific journal in faculty’s and university’s ranking. Non-random sampling survey was conducted with on-line questionnaire in September 2021 to examine Russian faculty and academics foreign language publications with connection to their foreign language skills. Based on the literature review we indicated three groups of ranking affecting factors: economic factors (author geographic affiliation, size of university or department, presence of strong business schools, academic training outside), co-authorship (international collaboration, number, gender and quality of co-authors) and individual characteristics (journal’s specialization and quality, faculty’s PHD-affiliation and language skills). We found that 95% of the survey participants have publications in foreign language. The significant relationship between the number of publications and the level of language proficiency exists only for participants who have more than 30 foreign language publications. The 89% of respondents who indicated that they never use a foreign language in their professional activities also have foreign language publications, and 15% of them have publications in journals Web of Science and Scopus (Q1 and Q2). Our findings indicated that the lack of language proficiency is not the main handicap for progression of the Russian research and journals visibility in international level. The main challenge is that we need to direct the research to an audience who might not at all be interested or knowledgeable about the national research context. Based on the obtained results, the recommendations were offered to potential contributors of articles in English and editorial boards.
Highlights
Department rankings serve several useful purposes amongst which attracting new faculty, admitting graduate students, and setting up collaborations with other educational institutions are the most important
Methodology for Ranking Journals The methodology of ranking journals is based on the simple idea of “how frequently” are the articles published in a journal within in a specific period are cited by articles published in other journals in the year following the period in which the articles were published
Methodology for Ranking Departments Since the impact values of the international journals (from Kalaitzidakis et al (2003) and the domestic journals are available, the departments can be ranked based on their quality adjusted publications in these journals
Summary
Department rankings serve several useful purposes amongst which attracting new faculty, admitting graduate students, and setting up collaborations with other educational institutions are the most important. Department rankings are used by university administrators to monitor progress and to allocate scarce education funds among competing institutions. There have been rankings of departments in Asia (Jin and Yau 1999), Canada (Lucas 1995), as well as Australia (Towe and Wright 1995). This study is the first attempt to rank Economics Departments in India based on their Research Output. Rankings are derived separately for publications in International journals and Domestic journals. Domestic journal coverage is important as these journals serve as potential outlets for research work focused on specific national issues
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