Academic Research Output Research Articles

Application of Geo-information Technology in Nepal “During and Post” COVID -19

At present, the world is facing the challenges to combat the pandemic situation due to outbreak of COVID-19. There is a global realization that the effects of COVID-19 will be in long term affecting various sectors of social and economic development. To support this health crisis, along with various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) the application of geo-information technology have proven to be significant for delaying and containing the COVID-19 pandemic. The application of geo-information technology is one of the interventions adopted basically in the monitoring of the COVID-19 cases. This paper attempt to shade a light on the present scenario in the use of geo-information technology in Nepal and has attempted to throw lights on the need of wider application of such technologies to combat Post COVID-19 crisis. Further, the academic program like geomatics engineering currently running at Kathmandu University can be a contributor of technical human resources and can provide academic research output necessary for strengthening the domain of geo-information technology in the settings of Post Pandemic context.

The criteria used by key decision makers in Australia to judge the academic quality of NTROs

Thirty experts in the assessment of the quality of Non-Traditional Research Outputs (NTROs) as academic research outputs were asked to rate the importance of 19 criteria that might be used in making these judgements. Analysis of responses identified four criteria where there is substantial agreement among the community of experts: (a) demonstrated familiarity in the research statement with the current state of knowledge in the relevant academic disciplines (very important); (b) demonstrated familiarity in the research statement with the current state of knowledge in the relevant industry (important); (c) evidence that the work has been engaged with by other academic researchers (relevant); (d) whether the NTRO creator is a substantive university staff member or an adjunct/honorary (unimportant). Fifteen other criteria either reached a less than ‘fair’ level of agreement, or larger numbers of respondents nominated ‘It depends’. Qualitative analysis of comments also revealed noteworthy disagreements in the expert community about how the criteria should be applied.

Sharing research with academia and beyond: Insights from early career researchers in Australia and Japan

Quality scholarly research outputs, such as peer reviewed journal articles published in reputable journals, are essential for early career researchers' (ECRs) vocational success while also offering benefits for their institutions. Research outputs destined for audiences beyond academia are also increasingly valued by funders, end users, and tertiary institutions. While there is an expectation that ECRs may create diverse research outputs for an array of audiences, the kinds of research output texts produced by ECRs for varied audiences warrants further investigation. In addition, the routes of dissemination that ECRs use to share their academic research outputs to secure impact beyond academia are not well understood. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews of 30 respondents in Australia and Japan, we explore the research‐sharing practices of ECRs, finding that ECRs may potentially create a wide range of research‐informed texts for end users beyond academia, using an array of methods for dissemination. The examples of the output text types and dissemination routes we provide in this paper can be used to inspire ECRs and also more senior academics to share their research more broadly, and perhaps more effectively, and can be used by publishers to improve research impact and support ECRs' research translation.

Mobility and Research Performance of Academics in City-Based Higher Education Systems

This study assesses how four types of mobility, which are analysed simultaneously, are associated with the current research output quality and visibility of academics working in the city-based higher education systems of Hong Kong and Macau. Transnational educational mobility is associated with the academics’ educational path, whilst intrasectoral job mobility, intersectoral job mobility and transnational job mobility are related to their professional careers. The research output, quality and visibility of academics are based on three indicators pertaining to the publications of these academics in international, peer-reviewed and indexed journals: the number of publications, the cumulative SCImago journal rank of these publications (which measures quality from an output perspective) and the citations obtained by these publications (which measures visibility). The results show that different mobilities have different effects on research output, quality and visibility, and that often these effects can be beneficial to one indicator but concurrently detrimental to another. Nested analyses of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and non-STEM academics, and by sex, offer further insight into the associations of these mobilities with knowledge output and outcomes.

Spam emails in academia: issues and costs

Academic research output is increasing at a very fast growth rate per year. Given this expansion, new publishers will enter the market or existing publishers will introduce new journals to capture the rapidly expanding intellectual contributions in scholarly publishing. It is thus natural that when competing factions, new and pre-existing publishers, vie to capture this expansion that inter-journal and inter-publisher competition arises. This competitive environment may induce unhealthy competition with the use of inappropriate or unacceptable tactics to gain a share of the expanding market. In the recent open access era, questionable review, pricing, managerial and marketing practices by journals or publishers that claim to be scholarly are broadly referred to as “predatory”. One way to capture some of the expanding market is to use unsolicited emails, referred to as spam emails, to attract customers. This method has always been a questionable business practice that imposes costs. In this paper we address issues associated with spam emails, and our conservative estimate of the external costs of spam from publishers and journals amounts to US$ 1.1 billion per year. When all spam emails are included in the calculation, the cost rises to approximately US$ 2.6 billion per year. Academics that respond to spam emails from journals that do not conduct peer review also risk damaging their careers by publishing their intellect in such outlets. Finally, spam emails may include phishing attacks, which also result in financial losses. By making academics aware of these costs we hope measures can be taken by affected institutes to reduce the negative externality of spam emails and offer some potential solutions.

The 100 most cited articles on thoracic surgery management of lung cancer.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In 2019, 228,150 new lung cancer cases and 142,670 cancer deaths are projected to occur in the United States (1), and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for nearly 85% of all diagnosed cases (1,2). As the US Preventative Services Task Force has released recommendations of computed tomography lung cancer screening for long-term smokers, the incidence of newly diagnosed lung cancer will have a marked increase (3). Over the past two decades, the therapies for lung cancer have evolved into a mature subspecialty, also being the culmination of a progressive research initiative and the continued innovation of interventional techniques. For operable NSCLC, the current guideline states that VATS lobectomy is the standard operation (4,5). In recent years, a great progress in the clinical treatment and basic research of adjuvant therapy for lung cancer has been obtained, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, target therapy, and immunotherapy (6-8). A large amount of literature is available to thoracic medicine specialists who perform thoracic surgery management of lung cancer. It is difficult to recognize articles of significance since the quality of the literature varies substantially and includes low impact studies and open access journals. An understanding of the available literature and the most heavily cited works will allow for a better understanding of the evidence base when discussing and providing these treatments. A bibliometric analysis is a quantitative method used to examine the knowledge structure and development of a research field and its publications. Among all the bibliometric methods, the citation analysis is the most common which focuses on citation number and number of citations per year (9,10). It evaluates the impact an article has had on a specific field of medicine by measuring the number of citations an article has received. Since 1971, the global output of academic research into the management of lung cancer has increased. There has been no specific quantitative analysis on the articles which have had the most significant impact on the treatment of lung cancer been performed. The aim of this study was to perform a citation analysis on the most cited articles in the thoracic surgery management for lung cancer and analyze each article individually, collecting the article type, year of publication, topic of interest, citation index, authorship, country of origin, institution, and level of evidence.

High Quality Audit Committee-Internal Auditor Relationship – How to Establish One?

Corporate governance codes and internal auditing standards released around the globe emphasized the importance of high quality audit committee-internal auditor relationship. Accumulating academic research output (eg. Cohen, krishnamoorthy and Wright, 2007; Van-Peursem, 2005) further reinforce the benefits of such relationship towards the firm's, particularly in ensuring firm's financial reporting quality, utilizing materials grounded in auditing and organizational psychological literature, this paper attempts to (i) conceptually define the quality of audit committee-internal auditor relationships and (ii) suggests practical approaches in ensuring high quality relationship could be established in public listed companies.

PROPENSITY TO ADOPT NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY CONTEXT

We present and test a theoretical model of academic research productivity, considering the relationship between the adoption of certain new modes of knowledge productivity and academic research output. 'Technological propensity' refers to the extent to which individuals seek to exploit new technological opportunities to enhance their own research productivity. We propose that there exists a positive relationship between technological propensity and research productivity, but that differences in personality, motivational values configurations and human capital investments may mediate this relationship. We empirically test theory in a sample of 457 academic respondents from nine South African universities and provide evidence that individuals who are more likely to utilise technological advances in their research are in fact no more research productive than those who do not. However, we also find that this relationship is mediated by an individual's 'openness to change'. Implications for theory, research and practice are discussed.

Scale Development on Perception of Academic Harassment among Medical University Faculties

In academia, harassment may often occur and remain unrevealed in Japan, which discourages young researchers from pursuing their career. It is necessary to estimate and improve the perception of "academic harassment" among university faculties. Therefore, in this study, we aim to develop a scale of perception of academic harassment. Prior to a quantitative survey, a task team consisting of medical doctors, researchers, nurses, hospital workers, and managers in general affairs division identified 36 items related to academic harassment. In February 2016, we sent a self-administered questionnaire to 1,126 academic faculty members who worked in a medical university located in Tokyo, Japan. We instructed them to score the extent to which they consider each item as related to academic harassment based on a Likert scale. We carried out maximum likelihood factor analyses with promax rotation and computed Cronbach's alpha to develop a scale and investigate the reliability of the scale. In total, 377 returned the questionnaires (response rate, 33.5%; male, 73.8%). In factor analyses, we removed 17 items owing to low factor loadings, and four factors were eventually extracted. The first factor was termed "Harassment in organization (7 items)" because it included conditions of forcing a particular person to work on chores or lectures for students that may prevent one's academic research outputs. The second factor was termed "Violence and denying personal character (4 items)". The third factor was termed "Research misconduct (5 items)" including conditions of excluding a particular person from the coauthor list of research outputs or pressuring a person to fabricate, falsify, or plagiarize research outputs. The fourth factor was termed "Research interference (3 items)" including a condition of interference with conference attendance. Cronbach's alpha values of these four factors ranged from 0.83 to 0.91, suggesting that the scale had high reliability. The means of these factors did not differ according to gender but were higher in participants aged 50 or older than in younger participants. The results suggest that the scale of perception on academic harassment consisting of four factors with 19 items is valid and reliable to some extent.

Citation impact of public and private funding on nanotechnology-related publications

This paper analyses the effects of public and private funding on the subsequent scientific output of academic research in nanotechnology. We investigate whether public grants increase the citation of publications, as well as whether private funding is complementary in enhancing citation impact. Using panel data, we compare autoregression models, binary case and continuous treatment analysis to find evidence that funding can positively affect the citation rate of scientific publications. The results show that the influence of public grants on the number of citations follows almost an inverted U shape curve, which has a positive impact proportional to the amount of public funding received. In contrast, industry funding does not exhibit robust effectiveness on citations. The estimates suggest that private research funding from industry can be detrimental to publication impact.

Reflective Praxis: accelerating knowledge generation through reflecting on our research and practice

ABSTRACTWe are delighted to announce a new and innovative inclusion for Cities & Health! ‘Reflective Praxis’ will encourage and actively foster deep and considered reflections from researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and communities about their work and its impacts. We seek both substantial scholarly articles and briefer think-pieces to share across the Journal’s readership and encourage discussion. It is our hope that Reflective Praxis will significantly add to the generation of knowledge to complement, and engage with, more formal and traditional academic research outputs. Reflective Praxis builds on the central aim of Cities & Health which is to contribute to ongoing knowledge generation for healthier city development and management. In this editorial introduce the specifics of the new section and provide a detailed rationale for its inclusion in the Journal. We encourage built environment practitioners, designers, planners, policy-makers and communities to contribute their reflections, so that together we can build the knowledges central to the advancement of urban health into the 21st Century.

Hotel performance: Rigor and relevant research topics

Academic research (rigor) in alignment with practitioners’ challenges (relevancy) has been advocated as a way of overcoming the ivory tower syndrome. Performance measurement is at the heart of strategic management processes, as it provides a mechanism of demonstrating outcomes. Given the importance of this topic for both theory and practice, this article explores the contribution of academic outputs in terms of academic research outputs (rigor) and current practitioners’ needs (relevancy).Using network analysis and cross-citation bibliometric approaches, a sample of 1155 articles is examined and fourteen clusters are identified. The emergent topics and subtopics from the academic literature are compared to ten insights proposed by Ernst Young to the hotel sector. The findings suggest a good fit between the two approaches together with some gaps. Based from empirical results, nine propositions are articulated.

Visibility strategy of the academic production and research output of the UFPS:Institutional digital repository

Within the University Francisco de Paula Santander (UFPS), activities are conducted to generate a large amount of academic and research output for which there exists a high demand for access to them. The objective of this article is to describe the construction of the Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) as a strategy to strengthen the visibility and the national and international impact of the academic output of the UFPS-Cúcuta. The framework for the development of the IDR was developed with The Dublin Core standard of Metadata interoperability using open source software DSPACE which is greatly accepted in the community as it has tools for the management of bibliographic collections. As a result, a description of the concepts of repositories, data representation and the process of building the IDR was done. By managing these strategies, the UFPS will strengthen its visibility and the national and international impact of its academic and research output and improve the scientific performance in the University’s Web Ranking.

Two decades of building capacity in rural health education, training and research in Australia: University Departments of Rural Health and Rural Clinical Schools.

This review article reports on the contribution of university Departments of Rural Health and Rural Clinical Schools to the development of rural health and the rural health workforce and is set at the Australian Government's university Departments of Rural Health and Rural Clinical Training and Support Programs. The main outcome measures include educational infrastructure, clinical academic workforce, student numbers, community engagement, research outputs, rural health and workforce outcomes. As a result, university Departments of Rural Health and Rural Clinical Schools have established a substantial geographical footprint covering most of the rural and remote populations and regions across Australia. They have a large distributed rural clinical academic workforce that exceeds 1300. Medical student numbers on long-term placements have increased threefold from inception to 1200 annually. Allied health and nursing numbers doubled over 10years to 4000 in 2013 and are projected to double again by 2018. In 2013, they published 363 peer-reviewed papers - half of which specifically addressed rural and/or remote health issues. High levels of intention to practise rurally and uptake of rural and remote practice following exposure to rural training have been reported, especially for medicine. Thus, university Departments of Rural Health and Rural Clinical Schools constitute a national network of academic units that deliver academically enriched clinical education and training for medical, nursing and allied health students and fulfil an essential academic role for the health system in rural and remote Australia. Community engagement and accountability to region are hallmarks of the program. Early evidence of the uptake of rural and remote practice following exposure to rural training has set expectations for the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training Program.

A bibliometric analysis of text mining in medical research

Text mining has become an increasingly significant role in processing medical information. The research of text mining enhanced medical has attracted much attention in view from the substantial expansion of literature. This study aims to systematically review the existing academic research outputs of the field from Web of Science and PubMed by using techniques such as geographic visualization, collaboration degree, social network analysis, and topic modeling analysis. Specifically, publication statistical characteristics, geographical distribution, collaboration relations, and research topic are quantitatively analyzed. This study contributes to the text mining enhanced medical research field in a number of ways. First, it provides the latest research status for researchers who are interested in the field through literature analysis. Second, it helps scholars become more aware of the research subfields through hot topic identification. Third, it provides insights to researchers engaging in the field and motivates attention on the relevant research.

The impact of electronic theses and dissertations: a study of the institutional repository of a university in South Africa

This paper investigates the academic and societal impacts of the engineering electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at the North-West University. The citation counts obtained through Google Scholar (GS) and the altmetrics data obtained from Dspace on the North-West University institutional repository are used to determine these impacts. Further, the conversion rates of ETDs from an educational output into an academic research output are determined using data from GS and the North-West University institutional repository. The results show that the 612 theses and dissertations attracted 931 citations which translates to 1.52 citations per thesis on average. A total of 41.2% theses and dissertations received at least one citation and the conversion rate into academic research output was 16.8%. The conversion rates in the last 3 years that are part of this research is 27.3% which suggests an improvement. An average of 323 PDF views were received per thesis. The citation and PDF views data show that the Engineering ETDs have commendable academic and societal impacts. Nonetheless, the academic impacts show scant correlation with the societal impacts although some positive trends are noticeable when looking at the origin of PDF views and citations by country.

Manifesto for filmmaking as organisational research

This article is an effort to build a manifesto for the academic acceptability of filmmaking as organisational research. While a film does not offer an argument with premises to reach a conclusion, it does accomplish its own distinctive manifestation of research as a performance of thought. Drawing on experience of academic film projects, we promote the idea of using filmmaking not only to convey research ideas but also to communicate the full sensory variety of organisational life. Finally, we see film as a powerful and valid feature of academic research output, providing opportunities for scholars to convey understanding to a broader public than the academy alone.

The complementarity of academic and commercial research output in funded research teams: evidence from a survey of publicly funded Irish researchers

Using data from a census of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded researchers, this paper explores the determinants of academic and commercial research outputs in publicly funded research teams. Using a conditional mixed process model, the paper estimates the effect on research output of national and international academic collaboration, industry collaboration and team size on research outputs. The paper also examines the extent to which academic and commercial research outputs are complements or substitutes. The paper finds that collaboration with both domestic and international academics increases the likelihood of academic research outputs. Interaction with SMEs and MNCs increases the likelihood of academic research outputs, but has no direct effect on commercial research outputs. There is evidence of a complementary relationship between academic and commercial outputs. This suggests that greater emphasis on commercial impact for funded research is not at the expense of lower bibliometric output.

The complementarity of academic and commercial research output in funded research teams: evidence from a survey of publicly funded Irish researchers

Using data from a census of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded researchers, this paper explores the determinants of academic and commercial research outputs in publicly funded research teams. Using a conditional mixed process model, the paper estimates the effect on research output of national and international academic collaboration, industry collaboration and team size on research outputs. The paper also examines the extent to which academic and commercial research outputs are complements or substitutes. The paper finds that collaboration with both domestic and international academics increases the likelihood of academic research outputs. Interaction with SMEs and MNCs increases the likelihood of academic research outputs, but has no direct effect on commercial research outputs. There is evidence of a complementary relationship between academic and commercial outputs. This suggests that greater emphasis on commercial impact for funded research is not at the expense of lower bibliometric output.

World, Structure and Play: A Framework for Games as Historical Research Outputs, Tools, and Processes

The potential of historical digital games as academic research outputs has been discussed by a small but growing number of authors (Clyde et al., Spring, Chapman, Carvalho, etc.). To date most of this work has focussed on the validity of games as an academic historical form. This article moves the debate forward by considering the potential of games to act not only as representations of historical data and analysis, but also as a medium of historical debate. It leans on the framework described by the games scholar Espen Aarseth to propose that the fundamental nature of games could allow the exploration and interrogation of information and arguments. Through the interactive quality of the medium tied to a historically critical approach, players could become not only observers of an output, but participants in the process of historical debate. Ultimately, the article argues that while games can certainly never replace monographs and other scholarly outputs, they can be an important addition to the field of study.