Motivation for Research and Publication: Experience as a Researcher and an Academic

Zain, Shahrom Md; Ab-Rahman, Mohammad Syuhaimi; Ihsan, Ahmad Kamal Ariffin Mohd; Zahrim, Azami; Nor, Mohd Jailani Mohd; Zain, Mohd Fauzi Mohd; Hipni, Afiq; Ramli, Nurfarah Liza; Ghopa, Wan Aizon Wan

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.05.030

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“…1,2 Over time, journals have come to depend on peer review, which confers credibility of their contents-so much so that publishing is now considered as important as research itself. 3,4 Several other factors, the most important of which is the linking of publications to career advancement in certain fields, have greatly increased the number of papers being published as well as the pressure on researchers to publish as many papers as possible. [4][5][6] The impact on research literature of the increased publishing activity and greater pressure has been the subject of many studies, some of which have shown the trade-off between quantity and quality, [7][8][9] with some researchers using scientific publications as a currency for promotion, regardless of their quality.…”

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Retractions of research papers by authors from the Arab region (1998-2018)

AlRyalat¹,

Azzam²,

Massad³

et al. 2020

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Objective: To provide an overview of retractions of research papers contributed by authors from the Arab region. Method: Papers in which the first author was affiliated to an Arabian country were selected from the Retraction Watch database covering the period 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2018. The retrieved records were divided into nine categories based on the reasons for retraction. Results: The search yielded 322 retractions, and the most frequent reason for retraction was plagiarism (34.5%). The median time from publication to retraction was 14 (25%-75% percentile 5-30) months. The number of papers retracted each year as well as the number of papers published in a given year but subsequently retracted increased steadily over the 21 years. The proportion of retracted papers to the total number of published papers (0.17%) was higher than the global proportion and was the highest for Algeria (1%) and the lowest for Lebanon (0.03%). Of the countries within the Arab region, 12 out of 14 countries showed either plagiarism or duplication as the most common reason for retraction; however, the countries differed in terms of the number of retractions and the time from publishing to retraction. Conclusion: Plagiarism was the most common cause of retraction in the Arab countries. The increase in the number of papers retracted each year was probably because searches now extend farther in the past, whereas the increase in the number of papers published in a given year but subsequently retracted can be attributed to the overall increase in the number of papers published.

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Retractions of research papers by authors from the Arab region (1998-2018)

AlRyalat¹,

Azzam²,

Massad³

et al. 2020

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“…Furthermore according to Žížalová et al (2011), the main features of the incentive system of employees include the proportion of income from commercialization, bonuses, provision of adequate equipment required for R&D activities, and academic career building (Žížalová et al, 2011). These motives are also confirmed in many studies conducted abroad (Zain et al 2011;Livotov, 2015). Other researchers, namely Kand and Sohn (2016), proposed new indices that can be used to evaluate the patenting activities of R&D organizations.…”

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Innovation in the public sector in a small open economy-initial investigation of patent activity at the Czech universities

2020

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For a successful economy, the interaction between research and its application in practice plays a key role. The aim of this paper is to analyze the institutional factors of patent activity at universities in the Czech Republic. The following five factors were selected for detailed investigation: budget from government, number of employees: professors, associate professor, and assistant professor, number of researchers and other employees, number of students (PhD, master, and bachelor), technology transfer workers. The patent activity analysis used methods of retrospective data analysis in the field of R&D activities, unstructured interviews, and statistical data processing. Following from the basic characteristics of the collected data, patent activity is related to the nature of universities, where technical universities are in leading positions in the monitored period of industrial-legal protection. However, the importance of encouraging innovation activity across all disciplines is crucial. The result of monitoring the dependency shows that a relationship of efficiencies and patent output is influenced by the size of a university. Secondly, there can be observed that technology transfer efficiency contributes more to the patent output that research staff efficiency.

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“…There are several factors related to research activities and productivity. This is evident in the findings of several previous studies, such as: a) motivation to research and write [13]; b) Psychological character, work culture, age, work environment productivity, and institutional prestige [14]; c) Individual and institutional factors [15]; d) Inadequate research funding, university environment which hinders the development of research, regulations on procurement of goods and services that limit university participation in government-sponsored research [16].…”

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Dynamics of Proposition and Funding of Lecturers’ Research Proposal at Private Universities in Higher Education Service Institutes Region XII – Indonesia

Nanuru¹,

Utama²

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advance and Scientific Innovation, ICASI 2019, 18 July, B

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The problem in this study was the gap between the target of the Indonesian Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education (Menristekdikti) in the field of publication who wishes to be number one in ASEAN, meanwhile, the Higher Education Service Institute (LLDikti) Region XII of Maluku and North Maluku, which is one of the ministries' work units, has a number of lecturers who are not very active in the field of research with publication impact.This can be seen from the very small number of research proposals funded by the Directorate of Research and Community Service (DRPM) of Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (Kemristekdikti) in the last 3 (three) years (2017, 2018 and 2019). Speaking of which, the objective of this study was to find the inhibiting factors that underlie the lack of involvement of lecturers at private universities (PTS) in LLDikti XII.This type of research was a qualitative study that seeks to ideologically raise the phenomenon of the low level of proposition and the pass of lecturers' research proposals in LLDikti XII.The research site was overlapping with the the Higher Education Services Institute (LLDikti) Region XII, namely Maluku Province and North Maluku Province. Data were collected through document search, interviews, and focus group discussions. The analysis process was carried out both in the middle of and post data collection process.The steps to analyze the data were: (1) data reduction, (2) data "display", (3) understanding, interpretation, (4) drawing conclusions and verification. This study found that of 2,445 lecturers in LLDikti XII, the lecturers involved in the research did not reach a quarter of the total.Likewise with the number of Private Universities involved, which is from a total of 44 Private Universities, only one third participated in research funded by DRPM. This finding indicated that the average ability of lecturers (in this case also Private Universities) in LLDikti Region XII is still very limited and requires capacity building.

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Motivation for Research and Publication: Experience as a Researcher and an Academic

Cited by 26 publications

References 2 publications

Retractions of research papers by authors from the Arab region (1998-2018)

Retractions of research papers by authors from the Arab region (1998-2018)

Innovation in the public sector in a small open economy-initial investigation of patent activity at the Czech universities

Dynamics of Proposition and Funding of Lecturers’ Research Proposal at Private Universities in Higher Education Service Institutes Region XII – Indonesia

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