Academic Incentive Allowance: Scientific Productivity, Threats, Expectations

Yücel, Ahmet Galip; Demir, Selçuk Beşir

doi:10.15345/iojes.2018.01.003

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“…However, growing use of bibliometric indicators also altered researcher behaviours via corrupted incentives, leading to a variety of negative outcomes (Abramo et al, 2021;Butler, 2003;Lopez Pineiro & Hicks, 2015;Yücel & Demir, 2018) and motivating various groups to call for more nuanced and equitable research assessment, such as in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) (Cagan, 2013), Metrics Tide report (Wilsdon et al, 2015), and Leiden Manifesto (Hicks et al, 2015). This has resulted in publishers, research organizations and funders signing-up to the aforementioned initiatives and developing their own policies to ensure metrics are deployed and used responsibly.…”

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Overton -- A bibliometric database of policy document citations

Szomszor¹,

Adie²

2022

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This paper presents an analysis of the Overton policy document database, describing the makeup of materials indexed and the nature in which they cite academic literature. We report on various aspects of the data, including growth, geographic spread, language representation, the range of policy source types included, and the availability of citation links in documents. Longitudinal analysis over established journal category schemes is used to reveal the scale and disciplinary focus of citations and determine the feasibility of developing field-normalized citation indicators. We examine how well self-reported funding outcomes collected by UK funders corresponds to data indexed in the Overton database, and if peer-review assessment of impact as measured by the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 correlates with derived citation metrics. Our findings show that for some research topics, such as health, economics, social care and the environment, Overton contains a core set of policy documents with sufficient citation linkage to academic literature to support various citation analysis that may be informative in research evaluation, impact assessment, and policy review. The data indexed in Overton agrees with that collected via self-reporting of funding outcomes, and correlates with peer-review assessment of impact in some disciplines.

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Overton -- A bibliometric database of policy document citations

Szomszor¹,

Adie²

2022

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“…Identifying criteria for evaluating researcher productivity is necessary. For instance, academics might collect scores from different scientific activities, such as projects, exhibitions, patents, awards, and contributions to activities that disseminate knowledge (Yücel & Demir, 2018).…”

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“…The pursuit of other activities in the effort to earn more individual income can lead to research time lost. Thus, financial incentives can enhance researchers' productivity and satisfaction at universities (Yücel & Demir, 2018). One practical example is the performance-oriented payment system, the W-salary system for professors, which has been implemented in Germany since 2005 (Fitzenberger & Schulze, 2014).…”

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Requirements for Productivity in the Academic Environment

Oruc¹

2021

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Modern life is improving as a result of the research that corporations, research centres, and universities, in particular, conduct. Moreover, besides their teaching function, the quantity and quality of universities’ research activities comprise an essential criterion for measuring the university’s quality. Today, universities around the world face global competition. Although one facet of the effort to attract productive researchers entails offering more and more, individual incentives are not enough. Universities must also create an attractive academic environment for researchers. This study sought answers to the following question: “What incentives and requirements are necessary to create a productive academic environment?” As the result of a literature review in pursuit of the study aim, the study findings include a total of 10 incentives for researchers and requirements for universities to build a productive research environment in academia.

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“…1 In the case of Australia, the bibliometric approach of research performance evaluation policy showed a drop in the relative quality of publications along with an increase in publication productivity (Butler 2003). In Turkey it led to uncertainty, and to research ethics and quality issues (Yucel & Demir, 2018). Similarly, Kazakhstan appeared in the list of the most affected countries (Macháč ek & Srholec, 2021).…”

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Research Performance Assessment Issues: The Case of Kazakhstan

Alibekova

Özçelik

Сатыбалдин

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SAR

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The study deals with research performance assessment issues as important aspects of research management and research quality. The case of Kazakhstan clearly demonstrates the impact of the prevailing bibliometric-centered approach. The aim of this study is to suggest an inclusive scale of individual research performance assessment. The method used is a quantitative study of the opinions of researchers and academics on the range of research related activities they traditionally carry out. The study expands the knowledge base on academic human resource management, and can be of high relevance for substantiating the criteria of performance assessment of researchers by HR managers of universities and public research institutions. The research results can be helpful for setting and complying with individual and institutional criteria for research performance evaluation. POLICY HIGHLIGHTS• A Survey among 264 researchers in Kazakh universities and public research institutions (response rate: 63%) asked them to rate their activities in five groups: supervising activity, professional advancement, publications, public recognition, and scientific & organizational activities.• The results demonstrate that their priorities correspond to national and international priorities: publishing papers in local and international peer-reviewed journals indexed in WoS and Scopus, and monographs.• Findings revealed that "Supervising" and "Professional Advancement" activities have the highest importance among all criteria groups.• Respondents gave the highest preference to participating at overseas and international conferences, seminars and workshops, thus expressing their desire to disseminate their research findings internationally and to build international links.

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Academic Incentive Allowance: Scientific Productivity, Threats, Expectations

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Overton -- A bibliometric database of policy document citations

Overton -- A bibliometric database of policy document citations

Requirements for Productivity in the Academic Environment

Research Performance Assessment Issues: The Case of Kazakhstan

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