The Scientific Impact of Developing Nations

González-Brambila, Claudia N.; Reyes-Gonzalez, Leonardo; Veloso, Francisco; Pérez-Angón, Miguel Ángel

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“…The science development (Ekanem, Ekanem, Ejue, & Amimi, 2010;Gonzalez-brambila, Reyes-gonzalez, Veloso, & Perez-angón, 2016) as well as science education development (Kingdom & Maekae, 2013;Kola, 2013) play an important role in the development of a country. The reason, in this 21 century, both the level of scientific literacy of community and the mastery of Doi: https://doi.org/10.21009/biosferjpb.v11n2.78-89 various concepts of science in the various field will be the backbone of a nation to compete with other nations (Liu, 2009;Mcfarlane, 2013).…”

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Courses perceived difficult by undergraduate students majoring in biology

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2018

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Some previous reports inform many students having learning difficulties on some science subjects. The purpose of this study is to map the courses considered difficult by undergraduate students majoring in Biology. This study used survey research design. Participants in this study are undergraduate students of Biology Education Study Program and undergraduate students of Biology Study Program, from the Department of Biology in one of the state university in Malang. The instruments used in this study are questionnaires of difficult courses in the Department of Biology and descriptive analysis is used as a data analysis technique. The results of this study are the majority of Biology Education students positioning Genetics, Genetics, and Biochemistry as the first, second, and third most difficult courses, while the majority of Biology students positioning Genetics, Genetics, and Botany as the first, second, and third most difficult courses. The Genetics, Statistics, and Biochemistry are the three most frequently selected courses as the three most difficult subjects in Biology Education Study Program, while in Biology Study Program is Genetics, Biochemistry, and Botany.

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Courses perceived difficult by undergraduate students majoring in biology

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“…This may take the form of increased funding for strategically important research areas (Clark, ; Collins et al, ). Luck may also play a role through the success of international competitors and collaborating nations (Gonzalez‐Brambila, Reyes‐Gonzalez, Veloso, & Perez‐Angón, ; Tahamtan, Afshar, & Ahamdzadeh, ), as well as chance factors within a country (Simonton, ), such as major scientific breakthroughs or the emergence of individual prominent scientists (e.g., Cypriot economics Nobel laureate Christopher A. Pissarides).…”

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National scientific performance evolution patterns: Retrenchment, successful expansion, or overextension

Thelwall

2017

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National governments would like to preside over an expanding and increasingly high‐impact science system but are these two goals largely independent or closely linked? This article investigates the relationship between changes in the share of the world's scientific output and changes in relative citation impact for 2.6 million articles from 26 fields in the 25 countries with the most Scopus‐indexed journal articles from 1996 to 2015. There is a negative correlation between expansion and relative citation impact, but their relationship varies. China, Spain, Australia, and Poland were successful overall across the 26 fields, expanding both their share of the world's output and its relative citation impact, whereas Japan, France, Sweden, and Israel had decreased shares and relative citation impact. In contrast, the USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Russia, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, and Denmark all enjoyed increased relative citation impact despite a declining share of publications. Finally, India, South Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, and Turkey all experienced sustained expansion but a recent fall in relative citation impact. These results may partly reflect changes in the coverage of Scopus and the selection of fields.

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“…Jedan od ciljeva u Nacionalnoj strategiji Republike Srbije je obezbeđivanje relevantnosti naučnih istraživanja za potrebe industrije. Trenutno su istraživanja u Srbiji, kao i u nekim drugim i, posebno, zemljama u razvoju [3], najvećim delom okrenuta ka produkciji naučnih publikacija. Patentne prijave i nova tehnička rešenja su činila svega 3,3 % od ukupnih naučnih rezultata u Srbiji u prethodnom periodu od 2011-2015 godine [1].…”

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Connecting science and industry with improved communication of research results

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Research for innovation" has been Serbian national scientific and technological development strategy for 2016-2020 period [1]. Similar strategies have been adopted elsewhere, including in the European Union. Horizon 2020, the EU Research and Innovation programme, implementing the Europe 2020 flagship initiative "Innovation Union", which indicates that efficient research utilization and innovation are the means for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth of the society. 'Innovation' is defined as the actual implementation of new ideas, inventions or technologies to create a new value, not only for an individual or organization but also for the society as a whole, with ultimate aim of creating a smart future [2]. One of the goals in the Serbian national strategy is to assure relevance of the scientific research in Serbia for the industrial needs. Currently, the scientific research in Serbia, like in some other, especially developing countries [3], is majorly oriented towards production of scientific publications. Patent applications and novel technical solutions yielded only 3.3 % of the total scientific output in the preceding period 2011-2015 in Serbia [1]. However, the process of implementing the research findings into practice is burdened with substantial challenges, which include effective communication of the new knowledge to target stakeholders and actual implementation by the users [4]. Academic writing has often been regarded as being unnecessarily complex. And although practitioners in the field of technical and professional communication found that much of the published scientific research is indeed related to their practice, they found the research was not communicated in the way that could easily be adopted to their work [5]. This finding could probably be extended to other scientific fields as well. Exacerbating problem is the so called "publish or perish" culture, still persisting in many academic environments. The number of scientific publications remains to be a measure for researchers' performance and a requirement for career advancement. Such metric promotes literature quantity over research quality and sometimes leads to publication of low-quality research with incorrect conclusions [6]. It was reported that over 50 % of published results in preclinical life-sciences research cannot be reproduced independently under specified experimental conditions [7]. This is partially attributed to the desire of academic researchers to publish novel findings as quickly as possible without rigorous examination and replication and to show only positive results in order to reach high-impact factor journals [7,8]. The 'publish or perish' culture could also lead to increase in incidences of plagiarism and fabricated results [9]. Furthermore, the use of bibliometrics as a sole measure of scientific performance influences both scientists, especially early in academic careers, and main research trends. A study on doctoral students and postdoctoral scientists has shown that those pursuing academic career feel forced ...

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The Scientific Impact of Developing Nations

Cited by 81 publications

References 20 publications

Courses perceived difficult by undergraduate students majoring in biology

Courses perceived difficult by undergraduate students majoring in biology

National scientific performance evolution patterns: Retrenchment, successful expansion, or overextension

Connecting science and industry with improved communication of research results

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