Research Performance Of Institutions Research Articles

Does Quality Matter? Quality Assurance in Research for the Chilean Higher Education System

This study analyzes the research quality assurance processes in Chilean universities. Data from 29 universities accredited by the National Accreditation Commission were collected. The relationship between institutional accreditation and research performance was analyzed using length in years of institutional accreditation and eight research metrics used as the indicators of quantity, quality, and impact of a university’s outputs at an international level. The results showed that quality assurance in research of Chilean universities is mainly associated with quantity and not with the quality and impact of academic publications. There was also no relationship between the number of publications and their quality, even finding cases with negative correlations. In addition to the above, the relationship between international metrics to evaluate research performance (i.e., international collaboration, field-weighted citation impact, and output in the top 10% citation percentiles) showed the existence of three clusters of heterogeneous composition regarding the distribution of universities with different years of institutional accreditation. These findings call for a new focus on improving regulatory processes to evaluate research performance and adequately promote institutions’ development and the effectiveness of their mission.

A Comparison of Scimago Institutional Ranking and profile of Scopus-Indexed Publications of Sri Lankan Universities

This study aims to explore the SCImago Institutional Ranking (SIR) 2022 to gain insight into the profile of Sri Lankan universities. Additionally, the study aims to investigate whether there was consistency between Scopus profiles and SIR. Furthermore, the research delves into various factors that impact the research ranking of an academic institution as defined by SCImago, which goes beyond just the number of publications. The data for the study were retrieved from SIR (2022) and Scopus database (2022) and were systematically analyzed. The author chose the following options to extract the data for overall ranking, Universities as a sector, Sri Lanka as the country and 2022 as the year based on all subject areas. The study found that the number of Sri Lankan universities eligible for the SCImago ranking has gradually increased from 2013 to 2022. According to SIR, the University of Colombo is the top-ranked academic institution in Sri Lanka, followed by Rajarata University of Sri Lanka and the University of Jaffna. Out of the fourteen universities in Sri Lanka, eight were ranked by SIR, with six being in the Q1 (first cluster) and two in the Q2 (second cluster). Interestingly, the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka was ranked 1st in SIR 2022 for its research performance among Sri Lankan universities with their 105 publications indexed in Scopus. Analysis of data shows that there is no relationship between the Scopus profile and the SIR. It is also suggesting that having a high number of articles in the Scopus database does not necessarily guarantee a high rank in SIR. The SIR not only depends on the number of publications but also on other factors related to the quality of the publications. Therefore, universities cannot assume their SIR position by considering only the quantity of Scopus indexed publications. SIR mainly considers the quality of the publications to measure the institutional research performance. The SCImago ranking evaluates the institutional whole performance through three of its indicators, and research performance is measured only through Scopus indexed publication. Sri Lankan publications in local and international journals which are not indexed in Scopus and conference papers were not counted for research performance. The findings of this study will facilitate the institutions to compare their position with other institutions, standardize their research practices, improve the international collaboration to uphold the academic benchmark, regulate their research publications and promote their visibility and finally support government bodies and policymakers regarding fund allocations and strategic planning.

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 & 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 & 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

THE EFFECT OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RESEARCHERS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS IN SRI LANKA

A countrys scientific research performance influences all aspects of a countrys future, its development, economic growth, and greater social well-being of the country. 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 & Innovation is affected by demographic characteristics. Purpose The purpose of this research was to identify whether the research performance of research institutions is affected by demographic characteristics. Design/Methodology/Approach To achieve the study aims, primary and secondary data were predominantly used. The study is carried out by perusing recent, major journals and papers on the topic that are published in reputable, high-quality journals. Data on academics research performance has been taken from NASTEC reports, the NIFS Research Repository, annual reports, and the questionnaire. This quantitative study, which employed a deductive methodology, was carried out using a slightly modified version of a previously validated and reliability-tested questionnaire. Findings The results have shown that researchers with age more than 60 years and more than 20 years of research experience, highest educational qualification of the researchers, university graduation (highest qualification), and the job category have significantly (P< 0.05) associated with the research performance where gender and the research field do not influence the research performance. Keywords Research performance, Demographic characteristic

The Influence of International Scientific Collaboration with English-speaking Countries on the Research Performance of Brazilian Academic Institutions

The Influence of International Scientific Collaboration with English-speaking Countries on the Research Performance of Brazilian Academic Institutions

The Landscape of Digital Natives Research: A Bibliometric and Science Mapping Analysis

This article provides a panoramic view of the research undertaken so far in the field of digital natives to highlight important trends, examine the intellectual structure and provide recommendations for future research. The study uses 983 publications from the Scopus database to analyse the productivity, impact and research performance of nations, journals, authors and institutions using indicators such as impact factor, h-index and citation counts. This review study uses bibliometric and science mapping analysis to assess the most recent developments and trends in ‘digital native’ research. VOSviewer is used to conduct keyword network analysis, co-authorship analysis and reference co-citation analysis, followed by SciMAT analysis to provide an evolution map and a cluster of themes. The analysis identified key contributors to the field, high-impact papers and geographic areas where field research is concentrated. The main research gaps were then identified, indicating future research avenues. The findings of this study will provide fresh higher-level insights into the developing field of digital native research for educators, computing executives, business managers and research scholars. Such information would be useful in establishing digital native recruitment tactics by the respective industry. The research will also aid in the development of policies for digital natives.

Mapping of Medical and Health Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina using Scopus

This study analyses the research activities of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Medical and Health studies during 2012 – 2021, based on the total publication output, its growth rate, quality of papers published, and rank of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the global context. Patterns of international collaborative research output and major partner countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina are also discussed. This study also evaluates the research performance of different institutions and characteristics of published literature in Bosnia and Herzegovina and foreign journals. The Medical and Health published literature data has been retrieved by using the Scopus database. Bosnia and Herzegovina hold 93rd rank among the productive countries in medical and health research.

Intelligent Educational Evaluation of Research Performance between Digital Library and Open Government Data

This study evaluates institutional research performance in benchmark technological universities in Taiwan through intelligent research databases (SciVal) in digital libraries with Ministry of Education open data to explore the performance of research indicators and the research trend of topic clusters to ascertain accountability for decision makers. The research performance of eight benchmark technological universities in Taiwan is compared in this study. In addition, the trends in research topics in the top 10% of journals are explored. Descriptive statistics, correlation, ANOVA, and the Boston Consulting Group matrix were used in this study. Research personnel, publications, productivity, total citations, number of international collaborations, and academic research income in 2018 significantly positively correlated with each other. From 719 records of research topics, topic clusters and school types are the significant factors in research outputs. Biosensors, electrodes, and voltammetry are the leading topic clusters in the research trend. The topic cluster of decision-making, fuzzy sets, and models has the best growth rate in the SciVal results. This analysis provides useful insights to policymakers to improve institutional administration and research resource allocation.

Research Competencies and Performance of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) Faculty

This study examined the research competencies and research performance higher education institutions (HEIs) faculty as to the number of researches completed, presentations, publications, and citations. The sample included 135 faculty of 8 public and private HEIs in the Philippines. Statistical treatments such as frequencies, percentages, and weighted means were used to present descriptive data while logistic regression was used to determine a suitable independent variable that fits to the model for predicting the research performance. The results revealed that the frequency of faculty in the HEIs decreases as the analysis moves from one research performance parameter to another higher parameter. The findings also indicated that research competency of the higher education institutions? faculty members is a predictor of research productivity particularly on the number of researches completed by the faculty. Several recommendations were given to increase research performance of the HEI faculty on research such as providing research trainings and mentoring programs.

Scientific collaboration networks in Pakistan and their impact on institutional research performance

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the scientific collaboration of institutions and its impact on institutional research performance in terms of productivity and quality. The researchers examined the local and international collaborations that have a great impact on institutional performance.Design/methodology/approachCollaboration dependence measure was used to investigate the impact of an institution on external information. Based on this information, the authors used “index of gain in impact through collaboration” to find the impact of collaborated publications in institutional research performance. Bibliographic data between 1996 and 2010 retrieved from Scopus were used to conduct current study. The authors carried out the case study of top institutes of Pakistan in terms of publication count to elaborate the difference between high performing institutions and those who gain disproportionally in terms of perceived quality of their output because of local or international collaboration.FindingsThe results showed that the collaboration of developing countries institutes on international level had a great impact on institutional performance and they gain more benefit than local collaboration. Altogether, the scientific collaboration has a positive impact on institutional performance as measured by the cumulative source normalized impact per paper of their publications. The findings could also help researchers to find out appropriate collaboration partners.Originality/valueThis study has revealed some salient characteristics of collaboration in academic research. It becomes apparent that collaboration intensity is not uniform, but in general, the average quality of scientific production is the variable that most often correlates positively with the collaboration intensity of universities.

A comparison of 17 article-level bibliometric indicators of institutional research productivity: Evidence from the information management literature of China

Periodically ranking institutional research productivity is necessary not only to understand the status of the development of related fields but also to identify gaps and take appropriate corrective steps. Many bibliometric indicators contribute to the assessment of institutional research productivity, but the appropriateness of the indicator and the relationships between different indicators are topics that have not been addressed. For this reason, an indicator framework for the ranking of institutional research performance, which consists of a count of published articles and quality weighted dimensions, is developed. Based on the literature review, 17 indicators in the framework are chosen for study. Based on these indicators, experiments are conducted to rank Chinese institutions in the field of Information Management. Kendall's tau rank correlation coefficient (τ) is calculated, and all pairwise correlations are between 0.34 and 0.98. There are three primary findings: (1) among the article count indicators, the Straight count indicator is significantly different than others; (2) the rankings based on the indicators which are weighted by quality are consistent with those based on the indicators using article count; and (3) the Paper citation weighted indicator is sensitive to the procedure used for institutional ranking.

Research performance of higher education institutions: a review on the measurements and affecting factors of research performance

Research performance of higher education institutions: a review on the measurements and affecting factors of research performance

Bibliometric Evaluation of Research Performance: Where Do We Stand?

This work provides a critical examination of the most popular bibliometric indicators and methodologies to assess the research performance of individuals and institutions. The aim is to raise the fog and make practitioners more aware of the inherent risks in do-it-myself practices, or cozy out-of-the-shelf solutions to the difficult question of how to evaluate research. The manuscript also proposes what we believe is the correct approach to bibliometric evaluation of research performance.

EXCELLENCE IN INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS: EXAMINING THE ACTIVE ROLE OF ROLE MODELS (DEANS) OF WORLD TOP BUSINESS SCHOOLS

As per one of the postulates of Theory A on organizational Behaviour, the scholars appointed as Deans/Directors in higher educational & research institutions are expected to be an exemplary performer in their career and through their administrative abilities and hence their individual research contributions inspire every person in the organization as a role model. Organizational performance depends on individual & team performance so that being the head of the institution, Dean/Director are expected to be role models for youngsters and have a responsibility in increasing institutional research performance by their active involvement in Research and Publications. Recently introduced ABC model of institutional research productivity has facilitated to study organizational research performance by calculating individual and institutional annual research index. In many educational and research institutions including top business schools, the Deans appointed are expected to be reputed eminent researchers capable of leading the institution through their ability to inspire individuals and teams in the entire institution and capable of enhancing the overall research productivity of the organization. In this paper, we have made an attempt to study the role model ability of Deans through their current research contribution in the form publications of 35 WorldTop business schools by studying their average research productivity of last five years for 2012-2016. The research publications of the Deans of these 35World Top business schools are studied by identifying the number of research papers published, number of books/edited books published, and number of book chapters published in an ISBN serial number books, and number of business cases published during last five years. Finally, the institutional annual research index for the year 2015 and the director’s average research index for last five years are compared and analysed. It is observed that many directors failed to act as role model and to reach optimum or super researcher rank. This study shows that the Deans/Directors of should become more active in their individual research contribution to the research output of the higher education institutions so that they can inspire other researchers in the organization as active role models.

It takes a village to raise an ECR

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe organisational strategies that support early career researchers in building a successful track record which can lead to a successful academic research career. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on more than a decade of experience designing, implementing and evaluating professional development programmes for early career researchers in universities. Findings If an early career researcher is to achieve long-term success, the first five years after graduating with a doctorate are critical in establishing long-term career success. Professional development programmes for early career researchers are more successful if they are supported by organisational strategies around workload, performance management and accountability. Originality/value If implemented, these organisational strategies can assist early career researchers to build a successful track record, which can lead to a successful research career and contribute towards increasing aggregate institutional research performance for universities.

ABC Model of Research Productivity and Higher Educational Institutional Ranking

Institutional Ranking has become a common practice in higher educational institutions, and business schools are the most benefitted by such ranking announced worldwide based on various ranking criteria. The ranking is usually based on pedagogy, placement, research output, faculty-student ratio, international linkage, management of technology etc. In this paper, based on six postulates, we have argued and analysed why the performance of higher educational institutions should be based on sole criteria of Institutional Research Performance (IRP). We have developed a model of measuring research productivity for higher educational institutions based on calculating institutional research index and weighted research index. The institutional research productivity is calculated using a metric which consists of three institutional variables and one parameter. The three variables identified are the following : Number of Articles published in peer reviewed journals (A), Number of Books published (B), and Number of Case studies and/or Book Chapters (C) published during a given time of observation. The parameter used is a number of full-time Faculty members (F) which remains constant during a given period of observation. A framework for institutional ranking based on institutional research productivity by considering calculated Institutional Research Index is also developed which can be used to give grades to higher educational institutions. Further, the model is tested by making use of case example of two best Business Schools from the USA and two best Business Schools from India. The value of research index and weighted research index are calculated for these institutions and observed variation of research productivity during last four years is also studied and discussed.

Understanding the relevance of national culture in international business research: a quantitative analysis

This review is a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the International Business literature whose focus is on national culture. The analysis relies on a broad range of bibliometric techniques as productivity rankings, citation analysis (individual and cumulative), study of collaborative research patterns, and analysis of the knowledge base. It provides insights on (1) faculty and institutional research productivity and performance; (2) articles, institutions, and scholars' influence in the contents of the field and its research agenda; and (3) national and international collaborative research trends. The study also explores the body of literature that has exerted the greatest impact on the researched set of selected articles.

Hall of fame for mobile commerce and its applications: A bibliometric evaluation of a decade and a half (2000–2015)

This study intends to evaluate the current development and trends of researches on mobile commerce and its applications through bibliometric analysis. Several publication characteristics were examined, on top of lists for most cited articles on this area and most studied mobile commerce applications. Through the data gathered from Web of Science database, this study employs several measures, namely impact factor, h-index, and citation counts to evaluate the productivity, impact, and research performance of countries, journals, authors, and research institutions. The number of publications are increasing yearly, with USA leading most of the times. Several international collaboration patterns were identified, and surprisingly some Asian countries have comparable performance to Western countries, in terms of the measures employed. Likewise, Asian authors and research institutions are found to have outstanding achievements too. Moreover, both the most studied mobile commerce applications and most cited lists offer some future directions. This study serves as a forerunner in using bibliometric analysis to evaluate researches on mobile commerce and its applications, and expected to benefit researchers in the area of mobile commerce, by identifying potential research directions. In addition, this study also serves as a useful guide to potential researchers and practitioners. However, improvements could be made, if extra analyses, such as content analysis, are added in.

Funnel plots for visualizing uncertainty in the research performance of institutions

Research performance values are not certain. Performance indexes should therefore be accompanied by uncertainty measures, to establish whether the performance of a unit is truly outstanding and not the result of random fluctuations. In this work we focus on the evaluation of research institutions on the basis of average individual performance, where uncertainty is inversely related to the number of research staff. We utilize the funnel plot, a tool originally developed in meta-analysis, to measure and visualize the uncertainty in the performance values of research institutions. As an illustrative example, we apply the funnel plot to represent the uncertainty in the assessed research performance for Italian universities active in biochemistry

Opening doors to basic-clinical collaboration and translational research will improve researchers’ performance

The present study investigate to what extent basic-clinical collaboration and involvement in translational research improve performance of researchers, in the particular setting of hospitals affiliated with the Spanish National Health System (NHS). We used a combination of quantitative science indicators and perception-based data obtained through a survey of researchers working at NHS hospitals. Although collaborating with clinical researchers and health care practitioners may increase productivity of basic researchers working in clinical settings, the extent to which they are able to contribute to translational research is the factor that allows them to make a qualitative leap in their scientific production in highly ranked international scientific journals. Our results challenge the arguments by some authors that translational projects have more difficulties than basic proposals to be granted by funding agencies and to be published in high-impact journals. Although they are not conclusive, our results point towards the existence of a positive relationship between leadership and involvement in translational research. Basic-clinical collaboration and translational research should be an incentive for researchers as they are likely to favour their performance. Hospitals will benefit from encouraging researchers and health care practitioners to collaborate in the framework of translational projects, as a way to improve not only individual, but institutional research performance. Spanish hospitals should contribute to overcome obstacles to translational research, through the full integration of basic researchers within the hospital setting and the definition of a research career path within the NHS.