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What Counts for Academic Productivity in Research Universities?
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What Counts for Academic Productivity in Research Universities?
Philip G Altbach
18 July 2014
Issue No: 329
University World News
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20140715105656393
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Publication in high status refereed journals has become a major criterion
of academic success in the competitive environment of global higher
education. Appearing in internationally circulated journals published in
English is especially prestigious. Universities are engaged in a global
arms race of publication; and academics are the shock troops of the
struggle.
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At stake is placement in the global university rankings, the allocation of
budgets from governments, national prestige, the ability to attract the
best students and professors and a preferred place in the pecking order of
academe.
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It is also useful to keep in mind that the publications and rankings games
are limited to a very small part of the academic system in any country.
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Most universities are largely teaching institutions and have a limited, if
any, research mission or profile. Only a thousand or so out of the worlds
18,000 universities appear anywhere in the international rankings.
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Thus, this discussion is limited to a small but important minority of
academic institutions.
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Research productivity is easier to measure than other kinds of academic
work teaching has been mentioned, and community engagement and such
important functions as university-industry linkages are also difficult to
define and quantify. Thus, research is not only the gold standard, but
almost the only semi-reliable variable.
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But even measuring research productivity is problematical. The global
rankings count journals that are indexed in main global indices such as
the Science Citation Index, Web of Science or Scopus, or their equivalents
for other disciplines. These indices list only a small number of journals
and tend to favour publications in English the global scientific
language.
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The rankings and other national evaluations also count research grants and
other awards. Again, this may be appropriate for the hard sciences, but
not necessarily for other disciplines. The rankings also do not take into
account the vast differences among countries and academic systems in the
amounts of funding available.
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Neither the indices nor most universities recognise a range of other
measures of productivity as well as significant changes in knowledge
distribution that have taken place in recent years.
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Additional Topics Discussed in This Article:
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The straitjacket of the indices
Anarchy and revolution in communication
Dilemmas of research funding
How to assess academic research productivity?
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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