International Academic Publications Research Articles

Student Satisfaction with the Components of the University Ecosystem as a Factor in the Development of Educational Organization

In order to improve the quality of education in Russia, standards are regularly updated, competencies are refined, new technologies for measuring quality are being introduced, and the mechanisms for interaction with stakeholders in the educational process are being revised. This study analyses the satisfaction level of students, who are the key stakeholders in the university ecosystem, as a factor influencing the quality of education. In particular, thanks to the analysis of the Russian and international academic publications from Google Scholar, Scopus, Cyberleninka and Science Index, main elements of the university ecosystem were identified, and the level of student satisfaction with these elements was evaluated, based on the results of survey conducted to evaluate the satisfaction level with the quality of the educational program. The paper presents the components of the “student satisfaction” parameter in the context of measuring the quality of education for the Bachelor’s degree program in linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages and Communication at the University of Science and Technology MISIS. The survey was conducted among senior students majoring in teaching in May 2022 (N=102, 68% in total). The results of the survey confirmed the authors' hypothesis about the applicability of the ecosystem approach to measuring the level of student satisfaction in assessing the quality of the program. Thus, the novelty of the research results and the practical value are in the finding that assessment of the level of student satisfaction with key elements of the university ecosystem allows not only to analyze the current state of the educational process, but also to devise a management strategy in order to enhance both the level of student satisfaction and the quality of education program in general.

The Use of 5G in Military Cloud of Things Solutions

In military operations, battlefield sensor systems and various solutions supporting reconnaissance and surveillance are increasingly important. Networked battlefield and military devices deployed in the operational theatre can be the best solution to this, ensuring that they are designed to collect all the data generated in their environment, which they are programmed to acquire. These devices continuously share the information they collect with each other and with a central storage and processing server. The required interconnections are typically two-way communications with all the criteria necessary to share the collected data in the shortest possible time. The data collected and analysed in this way can contribute significantly to the near real-time monitoring of the real operational situation and environment. This capability will enable the acquisition and maintenance of information superiority and can significantly speed up decision-making processes. Therefore, networked battlefield intelligent devices are essential for achieving operational objectives and successfully executing operations. In this paper, the author examines the integration of various levels of military IoT devices into the cloud environment and the use of 5G technology as a possible future solution for developing the communication environment. To achieve the research objectives, the author performs a comparative analysis between relevant international academic publications and technical reports on the topic, based on which he formulates his research results.

Industry 4.0: An analysis of the production of scientific papers based on indicators

The application of technologies related to Industry 4.0 is already underway in countries such as the United States, Germany, China, South Korea and Japan. Given the importance of using new technologies of Industry 4.0, listed in the scientific literature, we aim to understand how international academic publications on Industry 4.0 are characterized, based on their scientific indicators. In order to meet the objective, scientific publications were extracted from the Web of Science platform and analysis techniques such as Bibliometric, Spearman Correlation and Clustering (Cluster) were used. The revelations have pointed out that the Industry 4.0 theme is recent in terms of scientific publications by the Web of Science platform. In this database, the first Management, Business and Economics academic publications took place in 2016, although from 2018 onwards, there is a significant increase of academic publications in the researched area. Empirical disclosure provided evidence that the various measurements of indicators on the Impact Factor and number of citations converge with each other. The results pointed to a gap in indicators that demonstrate academic publications with expressive citations in low-impact journals. Finally, it is pointed out that these quantitative disclosures contribute to the decision-making initial process, but with limitations, considering the importance of interpretive analysis of the scientific literature content.

Understanding the fundamentals of the Social Licence to Operate: Its evolution, current state of development and future avenues for research

The field of studies on social licence to operate (SLO) has grown considerably over the past two decades, leading to the emergence of new approaches, models, and theoretical development. This paper aims to organise, map, and analyse the evolution of SLO over its years of existence. We seek to understand the theoretical body that supports the concept; the rationality of the adopted trajectories for its scientific development; and the most influential studies that have guided these trajectories. A multi-method approach was applied in the procedure adopted to map the evolution of SLO, analysing international academic publications over the last 24 years (1996–2019). This has been achieved through a systematic, longitudinal literature review using citation and co-citation analysis; bibliometric techniques and social network analysis, combined with a thematic analysis of the complete articles. The results from citations show that SLO evolution can be organised into five broadly representative stages, categorised as Historical Bases (1996–2002); SLO Recognition (2003–2006); First Management Models (2007–2011); Evolution of SLO Models and Initial Critical Studies (2012–2016); and Critical Studies and Increasing Complexity (2017–2019). We discuss the clusters formed by co-citation analysis, which is the theoretical body adopted by the authors, allowing the identifying of “invisible colleges”, which can be understood as the formation of conceptual lines used by the authors to support SLO. A comparative analysis of clusters generated by stages of evolution shows that while early research drew heavily on other fields, such as anthropology and engineering, studies primarily focused on citing SLO literature are identified as emerging from 2017, 21 years after the publication of the first identified publication (1996). Thus, SLO emerges as a self-sufficient field of knowledge, no-longer borrowing knowledge from other fields for itis intellectual development. Studies become theoretically based, with more rigor as the search for SLO management models continue. The organisation and analysis of this knowledge contributes to understanding the historical foundations of SLO, making the tracing of SLO trends possible while providing a broader understanding of the SLO literature that can assist and guide future research directions.

English as lingua franca. Or the sterilisation of scientific work

This essay discusses the impact of defining English as the lingua franca in academia, taking it as an additional barrier to achieving more equitable participation and a diversity of perspectives in scientific publications in the field of communication studies. Two aspects are particularly problematised. The first is the characterisation of a so-called research that travels, contrasting the ideal model of a strategic definition on what materials should be published on which platform with a scoring and evaluation system that prevents or limits intelligence in these choices. The second aspect is the definition of an acceptable level of eloquence for international circulation, in which the domestication of language leads to an epistemological domination. The debate is illustrated with a series of data regarding the (in)visibility of Latin American scientific production in international academic publications. Such barriers are, finally, presented as mechanisms of power that feed the so-called status of #CommunicationSoWhiteAndRich. The reflection suggests that the search for scientific rigour should not be confused with the rigidity of forms, valuing the construction of solidarity networks that contribute to the decolonisation of scientific thought.

Criticality in world-class universities research: a critical discourse analysis of international education publications

This study aims to critically and systematically investigate the contemporary discourse within scholarship on world-class universities in different higher education context. It applies critical discourse analysis to review articles from some top higher education academic journals and books published between 2000 and 2019. Exploring the notion of world-class university involves international-level identities and models, national-level policies and strategies, and institutional-level responses and practices. Findings highlight the absence of a clear definition of the concept of world-class university, an obvious Western-dominated value-laden paradigm, hegemony of global rankings discourse, priority of policies and strategies and inexplicit suggestions for practical application of research findings. Applying the critical discourse analysis, we examine the mission of higher education research towards global competitiveness and global rankings and the attitudes towards the challenges in pursuing world-class universities and its dissemination through the international academic publications as value neutral. This study focuses on recognizing, articulating, and critiquing biases in research production and dissemination. Different researchers might provide multiple critical scopes to investigate international inclusive scholarship on world-class universities. This study also contributes to the approaches in which discourse both shapes and is shaped by globalization and internationalization trends in the higher education contexts, and future orientations in this study.

University-industry-government relations of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) universities: The perspective of the mutual information.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) universities are important bases for science and technology research and play a critical role in China’s National Innovation System. Based on the Web of Science (WoS), this article analyzes the statistics of paper published by MIIT universities and universities from across China including MIIT universities. The results are as follows: (1) Both the MIIT universities and universities nationwide in China have increased their international academic publications, and MIIT have shown a greater increase for the past decade. (2) In terms of U-I-G interaction, for UG relations, the Tug value of MIIT universities has remained stable, while that of universities in China has become declined. For UI relations, the Tui value of both MIIT universities and universities in China has shown steady growth. For UIG relations, MIIT universities have a greater synergistic effect of Triple Helix relationship than universities in China. (3) For more details in seven MIIT universities, universities elected into “Project 985”, including HIT, BUAA, BIT and NPU, have published more papers, and been more synergistic with government and industry (UIG relations) than other three universities, including NUAA, NUST and HEU. Based on the empirical results, we discuss our findings, and make certain suggestions regarding policy incentives, reasonable administrative system and U-I-G interaction mode, which is significant not only for Chinese universities but also for universities in other developing countries.

The role of network position, tie strength and knowledge diversity in tourism and hospitality scholars' creativity

This study proposes a model of a structural hole, with knowledge diversity as a moderator that influences the quality and quantity of creativity outputs. The proposed models used a sample of 2316 international academic publications listed in social science citation indexes by 1661 tourism and hospitality scholars over a 32-year period across different regions of China (e.g., Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macao). The results showed a curvilinear pattern of the relationships between the position of structural holes with the quantity and quality of creativity output. In addition, we found that knowledge diversity may positively influence creativity, as it performs the negative role of moderating the relationships between network positions and the quality and quantity of creativity outputs.

Writing academic english as a doctoral student in sweden: narrative perspectives

The expectation that doctoral students publish during their studies has increased in recent years. The standard of having international academic publications before entering the job market has long been perceived to pose an even greater challenge to doctoral students in non-English speaking countries who are often expected to publish in English, rather than their national language. This deficient perspective has, however, recently been questioned. We undertook a narrative inquiry at a Swedish university in order to better understand the experience, self-perception, and needs of doctoral students writing academic English. From these narratives, two themes relating to the doctoral students' journeys towards academic writing emerged: deficit and commonality. After reviewing the data, we argue that it is important to support doctoral students in their journey into bi-literate academic writers, rather than focus on the notion of the privileged position of the native speaker.

Identifying HSS Research Data for Preservation: A Snapshot of Current Policy and Guidelines

This article discusses research data in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), and the extent to which Irish and international policy supports researchers in identifying and selecting their data for preservation. Researchers may experience difficulty in selecting and appraising their research data in a HSS context, where research is often qualitative and may include annotated draft texts, audio and video recordings, and images. Although international academic publications, practical manuals, and policy statements are available, it was found that, in general, guidance on identifying and selecting research data for preservation is not well developed in Ireland.

Carbon market and global climate governance: limitations and challenges

Climate change has been a challenge to international diplomacy and to global climate governance (GCG) involving governments, companies and civil society. This paper discusses the limitations and challenges of the global carbon market as a mechanism of GCG and its role in the post–Kyoto period. This study is part of an interdisciplinary and multi–institutional research about GCG and carbon market and it is based on a deep literature review of national and international academic publications, as well as institutional documents from the United Nations international panel on climate changes (IPCC) and UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC). The findings reveal the limitations and challenges of the carbon market as a GCG mechanism to face the climate change. It defends the necessity of developing countries to strengthen their national and sub–national regulations in direction to a low carbon economy.

Engaging a Plurilingual Scientific Community: Multiple Languages for International Academic Publications

Abstract:Fran Rothstein is contributing editor of the AAA Commission on World Anthropologies column in Anthropology News.

Nos limites da autonomia: reflexões sobre práticas de blind review e editoria de revistas científicas em administração no Brasil

A partir da percepção de um hiato de qualidade entre a publicação acadêmica nacional e a internacional, recuperamos neste ensaio o debate acerca dos modelos de revisão e publicação de artigos na área de Administração no Brasil, com ênfase em seus aspectos institucionais, mais especificamente nos papéis de editores e conselho editorial no processo. Para tal, delineamos e discutimos dois modelos "puros" de revisão e publicação de artigos científicos. A partir do pressuposto que a importação de idéias estrangeiras não é necessariamente destituída de criatividade oferecemos uma crítica às práticas de publicação no Brasil, discutindo o valor da autonomia dos pareceristas no processo e os desafios organizacionais que envolvem os editores e o conselho editorial na construção de artigos de alta qualidade e impacto.