Quality Of Journal Research Articles

On citizens' right to information: Justification and analysis of the democratic right to be well informed

On citizens' right to information: Justification and analysis of the democratic right to be well informed

Assessing the Publication Records of Accounting Faculty Successfully Tenured and Promoted

The quantity and quality of research articles required to attain tenure or to be promoted in accounting is not always known and evolves over time. To help add clarity to this dilemma, this study evaluates the quantity and quality of publication records for faculty who successfully achieved tenure or promotion at universities offering Ph.D. and/or Masters programs in accounting. Quality of publication was determined based on a number of metrics including the Australian Business Dean’s Council journal list (ABDC), which is now widely used for tenure and promotion decisions as well as for accreditation purposes, and the BYU rankings of accounting journals. We are one of the first empirical studies to use the ABDC to determine research quality. Our analysis shows that for tenure decisions, accounting faculty at Ph.D. granting institutions publish, on average, fewer articles than accounting faculty at Masters universities, but those published articles are at much higher quality journals. In addition, both tenured and promoted faculty at private universities publish significantly more in high quality accounting journals than faculty at public universities. Collectively, our results indicate that research quality and quantity differ between universities that grant Ph.Ds. in accounting and those that only offer a Masters degree in accounting, and between public and private universities. More importantly, our research provides quantity and quality expectations for tenure and promotion cases that can be used by accounting faculty, administrators, and external reviewers across different types of universities. Given that our results are based on historical data and tenure/promotion requirements tend to continually increase over time, this study’s results should only be used as a guide for future tenure and promotion cases.

Gender diversity and publication activity—an analysis of STEM in the UK

Abstract Gender diversity in STEM remains a significant issue, as the field continues to be a male dominated one, despite increased attention on the subject. This article examines the interplay between gender diversity on projects funded by a major UK research council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and the publication activity of a project, as measured by the average journal quality of project publication output, over a 10-year period. The proportion of female representation and leadership on these projects remains very low. For the projects examined as part of this study, over 70% of these projects have no female representation, and less than 15% have a female lead. This study does not find a significant relationship between gender diversity and journal quality output. This study highlights that an important avenue for future work is the development of alternative metrics to assess the performance of research projects in a discipline characterized by very low levels of gender diversity, to fully unpack the impact of project team gender diversity on project output activity.

Collaboration results in higher impact research: Case study of the Canadian Forest Service

The Canadian Forest Service (CFS) has a mandate to share its full breadth of scientific knowledge concerning Canada’s forests broadly, with citizens, as well as narrowly, with organizations responsible for managing forests. Measuring the impact of CFS research in policy-making both nationally and internationally can be challenging, as policies may not reference research contributing to decisions. This paper presents an analysis of how collaboration with different partners impacts the reach of CFS research, as measured by published citation databases. We found that CFS publications authored or co-authored with a U.S. or Canadian federal government author had significantly higher research impact. University co-authorship also increased impact, in part through the quality of publication journals.

Evolution of interpreting as a social practice in China during the past four decades. An analysis of Chinese discourse on interpreting through the lens of social practice theory

This article examines how interpreting has evolved as a social practice in China and how it has been shaped by the changing social environment during the past four decades. Viewing interpreting as a social practice, the study employs an adapted three-element model from the social practice theory as the analytic framework. Through a qualitative thematic and content analysis of about 50 relevant articles representing the three sets of elements, which are selected from a database of Chinese articles on interpreting, and published in quality journals of Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index/Core Journals of China in the past four decades, the “competences,” “meanings,” and “materials” of the social practice of interpreting are identified and their evolution in different periods are analysed. Through an examination of the economic, socio-political, and technological developments in China during the past four decades, the evolution of interpreting in three periods (late 1970s to early 1990s, the mid-1990s to early 2000s, and 2007 to present) are identified, and the role of the changing environment in shaping the social practice of interpreting is revealed.

Publication and citation analyses of Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control from 2011 to 2020

To investigate the publications and citations of Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control from 2011 to 2020, so as to provide insights into improving the journal quality and impact. All publications were retrieved from 60 issues of 10 volumes of Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control from 2011 to 2020, and publication and citation analyses were performed using a bibliometric method. A total of 1 867 articles were published in Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control from 2011 to 2020, with the largest number in 2012 (220 publications) and the lowest in 2020 (135 publications), and original article (36.48%), control experience (17.14%) and control study (10.34%) were the three most common article type. The overall proportion of grant-supported articles was 59.08% (1 103/1 867), and the number of grant per article was (2.34±1.58) grants. The mean duration from submission to publication was (173.48±105.84) days per article, and there was a significant difference in the mean duration from submission to publication among years (F = 30.883, P < 0.01). Jiangsu Province (492 publications, 26.35%), Shanghai Municipality (264 publications, 14.14%) and Hubei Province (230 publications, 12.32%) were the three most productive provinces where the first author lived, and disease control and prevention institutions were the predominant affiliations of the first author (67.22%), with Jiangsu Institute of Schistosomiasis Control, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Wannan Medical College as the three most productive affiliations. The number of authors was 5.94 authors per publication, and the proportion of co-authored publications was 95.45% in Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control from 2011 to 2020. Journal article was the predominant type of cited (89.97%), and the mean number of citations was (15.70±11.56) citations per publication, with a significant difference in the mean number of citations per publication among years (F = 2.205, P < 0.05). The impact factors of Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control ranged from 0.877 to 1.676 during the period from 2011 to 2020, and the overall Price index was 47.59%. Both the academic impact and national transmissibility of Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control appeared a tendency towards a rise from 2011 to 2020. Seeking high-quality contributions, increasing interdisciplinary integration, shortening the duration from submission to publication, expanding the coverage of publication services and enhancing impact are the future priorities of the journal.

Women entrepreneurs in India: a systematic literature review

PurposeThis paper aims to organize the existing empirical research on women entrepreneurs (WEs) in India, highlight the research areas that have not received attention and present opportunities for future research.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review (SLR) was performed on 74 scholarly articles focusing on WEs in India and published between 1993 and 2020. This review is structured around the 4W framework used in previous SLRs. The review is directed by the following foci: what do we know about academic research on WEs in India? How were these studies conducted? Where were these studies conducted? Why should academicians and practitioners consider WE research?FindingsThe authors arrived at four main themes underlying the empirical research on WEs: success factors for WEs, challenges faced by WEs, factors that attract and motivate WEs and performance measures for WEs. While challenges and success factors have received attention from researchers, there is a distinct lack of papers on factors that attract or motivate WE and performance measures. The main gaps identified were a lack of theoretical basis in studies, reliance on interview and survey-based methodology and a lack of context-specific studies.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of this review are limited to WEs operating in India. Only Scopus-indexed journals listed in the Australian Business Dean's Council Journal Quality List (ABDC JQL) were included in the final SLR list.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies to use a systematic approach to provide a detailed account of the state of the literature on women's entrepreneurship research in India.

The News Ecosystem in the Age of AI: Evidence from the UAE

ABSTRACT While there is a growing body of literature on the use of algorithms in journalistic principles and professional practices in general, there is a gap in the literature regarding the adoption of AI, algorithms, and automation in the journalistic field in the United Arab Emirates. This paper explores the journalistic field by providing empirical perspectives on algorithmic adoption and its relationship between journalistic values and algorithmic innovation. Through semi-structured interviews, we explore how AI adoption amongst journalists explains the gaps between journalistic values and journalistic practices empowered by algorithms. The findings suggest that, in large part, the journalists and news organizations have recognized the strategic value of AI for journalism and journalistic quality. However, the future of AI journalism depends on balancing algorithms with editorial and ethical parameters. To maintain the integrity and trustworthiness of the content, news organizations and journalists themselves need to be able to define how AI is used in the field.

THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL EDUCATION CONFLICT IN INDONESIA: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

This paper aims to investigate the main issues in education in Indonesia and propose sustainable solutions so that education policymakers, stakeholders, and academics can increase their awareness and knowledge of the education conflict. This paper systematically reviews the literature on educational conflicts in Indonesia from 2000 to 2021. The journals used as the main reference in this study are quality journals indexed by Scopus. The literature sources were obtained from a trusted institution called Taylor Francis Online. This institution is located in the UK and is a well-known multinational company publishing books and academic journals. Several issues are found in the literature, but the crucial issues that are most often discussed and need serious attention in the literature are the limited number of skilled teachers, inadequate facilities and infrastructure, lack of learning materials, high cost of education, low quality of education, and the minority of disabled groups.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Truth and Trust Online

This editorial summarizes the content of the Special Issue on Truth and Trust Online of the Journal of Data and Information Quality. We thank the authors for their exceptional contributions to this special issue.

Publishing your research work: Updated concepts and nuances of few metrics used to assess journal quality.

Authors have a multitude of options for journals for publishing their research. However, their choice is mostly based on academic credits required for promotion, cost of publication, timeliness of process, etc., The purpose of this narrative review is to enlighten the authors about some other journal metrics used to assess journal ranking and quality in international scenario. The main concepts discussed in this paper are the impact factor and cite score. The paper includes an explanation of terms like web of science, journal citation reports, and how they are related to impact factor. This will help the authors to make the right decision about choosing the right journal for publishing their research. Along with the historic concepts we have included the latest updates about changes being made to the journal citation report and impact factor released in 2023 June. Hopefully with the review paper, we will be able to encourage the inclusion of such concepts and curriculum of post-graduation courses considering publishing a paper and choosing a journal are an integral aspect of a researcher's work life.

The Use of Modal Adverbs of Certainty in Linguistic Academic Discourse: Case Study of Empirical Research Articles in Language Learning and TESOL Quarterly

Attitude and disciplinary culture are 2 frequently discussed topics among the studies on academic discourse. To explore the use of modal adverbs of certainty in linguistic academic discourse from the macro structure perspective, 9 kinds of modal adverbs of certainty which occur 56 times in 10 linguistic empirical research articles (Ras) with ILMRDC structure published in 2 high—Quality journals (Language Learning and TESOL Quarterly) are analyzed. The research results show that these modal adverbs of certainty are mainly located in Literature Review and Discussion Part. As for the communicative functions, modal adverbs of certainty are generally used to express certainty towards propositions. Specifically, in Literature Review Part, they can also be used to show authors’ appreciation of other scholars; in Discussion Part, they are also used to hedge the certainty in both authors’ and previous studies’ proposition. This research hopes to help its readers better understand modal adverbs of certainty in academic reading and accurately use modal adverbs of certainty in academic writing.

Research gap strategies in article introductions of different rank applied linguistics journals

Research gap (RG) becomes an important rhetorical work in research article introductions in all fields, especially in a competitive research publication atmosphere. A research article (RA) submitted to a reputable journal may be rejected because the writers fail to show the ‘niche’ in reviewing previous relevant studies to justify their research project. This research aims to find how writers in Applied Linguistics (AL) published in international journals of different quality in terms of their quartile value address the novelty in their journal article introductions. Forty articles were selected from eight different reputable international journals in AL of different tiers for the corpus of this study. The content analysis method under the umbrella of the qualitative approach was applied in the data collection and analysis. Six RG strategies, as suggested by Arianto et al. (2021), were used as a model for analysis and then the linguistic features used by the writers in realizing the RGs. The results show that among the six different RG strategies, the most frequently used by international writers are Strategy 2 (inadequate research) and Strategy 4 (contradictive/conflicting evidence). Among the four groups of RAs, those published in Quartile 1 journals used the most frequent strategies. The frequent linguistic features used by international writers are adversative conjunctions and adjective-modifying nouns to signal their RG strategies. To improve the quality of an article introduction, writers, especially novice writers, should use multiple strategies with the appropriate linguistic features.

TINJAUAN TENTANG CLICKBAIT DI MEDIA

The ease of access to information via the internet certainly has a positive impact on the community, and at the same time the community also accepts the negative impact. One negative thing is the growth of clickbait produced by online mass media. This paper aims to examine clickbait starting from the definition, types of clickbait, the advantages and disadvantages of using clickbait in terms of business and journalism. This study uses a qualitative approach, using content analysis as the main research data source. The author reviews various journals that examine clickbait, books, and website searches. The results show that the use of clickbait is a strategy by the mass media to persuade their readers to visit their website, then the number of reader visits is used as the basis for media companies to compete with their business partners. Clickbait provides business benefits in a limited time, while from a journalistic perspective it is clearly very detrimental, because the journalistic quality is very bad.

Correlations between the selection of topics by news media and scientific journals.

The aim of this study is to reveal a robust correlation between the amount of attention international journalism devotes to scientific papers and the amount of attention scientific journals devote to the respective topics. Using a Mainstream-Media-Score (MSM) ≥ 100 (which we regard as an indicator for news media attention) from the altmetrics provider Altmetric, we link 983 research articles with 185,166 thematically similar articles from the PubMed database (which we use to operationalize attention from scientific journals). The method we use is to test whether there is a concomitant increase in scientific attention after a research article has received popular media coverage. To do so, we compare the quotient of the number of thematically similar articles published in scientific journals during the period before and after the publication of an MSM ≥ 100 article. Our main result shows that in 59 percent of cases, more thematically similar articles were published in scientific journals after a scientific paper received noteworthy news media coverage than before (p < 0.01). In this context, we neither found significant differences between various types of scientific journal (p = 0.3) nor between scientific papers that were originally published in renowned opinion-leading journals or in less renowned, non-opinion-leading journals (p = 0.1). Our findings indicate a robust correlation between the choice of topics in the mass media and in research. However, our study cannot clarify whether this correlation occurs because researchers and/or scientific journals are oriented towards public relevance (publicity effect) or whether the correlation is due to the parallelism of relevance attributions in quality journalism and research (earmark hypothesis). We infer that topics of social relevance are (more) likely to be picked up by popular media as well as by scientific journals. Altogether, our study contributes new empirical findings to the relationship between topic selection in journalism and in research.

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Critique and change: The “what”, “why”, “how”, and “so what”

Critique and change: The “what”, “why”, “how”, and “so what”

Distance education as a tool to improve researchers’ knowledge on predatory journals in countries with limited resources: the Moroccan experience

The emergence of predatory journals is a global threat for scientific integrity, particularly in under-resourced settings such as low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). A bilingual course on predatory publishing using a distance education approach was developed for Moroccan researchers as a response to the imperative need for training on research ethics to implement good scientific practices. A cross-sectional survey-based study was conducted to evaluate outcomes after delivering two education sessions in both French and English. Before this course, 40% of participants indicated that they don’t verify journal quality before manuscript submission and most of them consider Scopus indexing and the impact factor as the best criteria for journal publication. Approximately 50% of surveyees did not have previous information on predatory journals before the webinar. Pressure to publish by supervisors, institutions of affiliation, or funding agencies, was noticed in 43.4% of participants. After the webinar course was delivered, remarkably, the proportion of participants with knowledge on predatory publishing was meaningfully increased from 48.9% to 81%. Importantly, 83.7% of participants indicated that they are motivated to share their new knowledge on predatory publishing with their colleagues. Moreover, the majority of respondents (73.8%) reported that publishing their research in predatory journals may damage their career and professional future. Promisingly, nearly a half or more of participants recommended the use of training based on distance education, surveillance of researchers by their mentors and affiliations, and social networks to increase awareness on predatory publishing. Almost all participants were satisfied with the content of the webinar. Trainers and research institutions in LMICs should benefit from the advent of distance education using webinar platforms to increase awareness on the issue of predatory publishing in their settings.

FACTORS AFFECTING THE RESEARCH PERFORMANCE OF SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS IN SRI LANKA

Research performance is recognized as one of the most critical indices for the evaluation of a research institute. However, very few previous scientific studies have focused on the factors affecting a science research institutes research performance in Sri Lanka. The study focusses to identify whether the research performance of research institutions coming under the State Ministry of Skills Development, Vocational Education, and Research &amp; Innovation is affected by individual and institutional characteristics. Purpose The study is to identify the research performance of research institutions is affected by individual and institutional characteristics Design/Methodology/Approach Primary &amp; secondary data has been predominately used in order to address the research objectives. The research is conducted perusing the recent and major Journals and articles that are published in reliable, high quality Journals on the captioned subject. The data concerning the research performance of academics has been extracted from the questionnaire, NIFS Research Repository, Annual Reports and from NASTEC reports. This quantitative study conducted using a deductive approach through a slightly adopted version of an already validated and reliability checked questionnaire Findings Individual characteristics and institutional characteristics were significantly correlated with the research performance (r=0.356, r=0.568 respectively). Of all variables, institutional characteristics had the strongest positive correlation where it could be used as a significant predictor (R2AD= 0.320) for the research performance of research institutions. Keywords Research performance, Individual characteristics, Institutional characteristics Paper Type Research paper

Cancer Immunology Research: A Decade of Illumination and Innovation

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