2016
DOI: 10.18537/mskn.007.002.08
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Improving the publication visibility of Ecuador’s higher education system

Abstract: This article reports on a comparative study between the publication productivity of Ecuador's leading Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) (as reported in the SCOPUS journal/proceedings database; https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus) and the publication efforts of similar universities in SouthAmerica and Western Europe when those universities converted from a "teaching-only" to a "teaching and research" focus. The authors highlight the causes of Ecuador's research and publication paucity and suggest remed… Show more

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“…The ways in which this will steer academic publishing in the country will no doubt continue to be closely examined. As Feyen et al (2016) acknowledge, publication visibility in Ecuador contends with multifaceted issues, including: low research capacity and infrastructure; low impact and prestige of local journals; scholars studying abroad often publish in international peer-reviewed journals; and local scholars contributing to internationally-funded projects are sometimes excluded as co-authors.…”
Section: Journal Of Current Cultural Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The ways in which this will steer academic publishing in the country will no doubt continue to be closely examined. As Feyen et al (2016) acknowledge, publication visibility in Ecuador contends with multifaceted issues, including: low research capacity and infrastructure; low impact and prestige of local journals; scholars studying abroad often publish in international peer-reviewed journals; and local scholars contributing to internationally-funded projects are sometimes excluded as co-authors.…”
Section: Journal Of Current Cultural Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In China, publishing outputs are increasingly beholden to foreign commercial publishers, journals and paywalls, producing "a devastating impact on the visibility and impact of Chinese scholarship within China" (Ren & Montgomery 2016: 397). In Ecuador, with many universities transitioning from a teaching-only to a research-and-teaching paradigm, they become increasingly preoccupied with imperatives to improve their "publication visibility" (Feyen et al 2016).…”
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“…Si bien desde la implementación de leyes relacionadas con el desarrollo de la investigación y la producción científica en el Ecuador ha habido un incremento considerable en el número de publicaciones de las universidades ecuatorianas en el período 2009(Rivera-García et al, 2017, esta contribución científica sigue siendo baja comparada con la de otros países de la región y el mundo (Morales, 2013). Casa adentro, este problema se acentúa en instituciones, como la Universidad de Cuenca, que se encuentran en un proceso de transición de universidad de docencia a universidad de docencia con investigación (Feyen et al, 2016). Adicionalmente, en la actualidad las universidades públicas enfrentan el riesgo de disminución de fondos dedicados a la investigación debido a la pandemia generada por el COVID-19 (Feyen, 2020), lo que sin duda tendrá repercusiones en el número de publicaciones científicas y la promulgación de sus resultados.…”
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“…The reasoning behind these changes was clear: In a “teaching-only” environment, the improvement of faculty qualifications and a focus on research would lead to better-qualified professors with greater research and publication skills who could better prepare students for the demands of the 21st century. Universities would become solvers of the country’s socioeconomic problems and would raise Ecuador’s stature in the world (Feyen et al, 2016; Feyen & Van Hoof, 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%