More journal articles and fewer books: Publication practices in the social sciences in the 2010’s

Savage, William E.; Olejniczak, Anthony J.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0263410

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“…The findings have indicated that journal articles have largely dominated the amount of publications on the subject during the period under investigation. This is in line with Savage and Olejniczak, (2022) who observed that journal articles had increased compared with other type of published materials. The findings have indicated that most of the Open Access research output is published in Gold followed by Hybrid, bronze OA journals.…”

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Bibliometric Analysis of Climate Change Publications in Tanzania from 1964 to 2021

Muneja¹

2023

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Climate change has affected lives of all human beings around the globe making it a growing area of research concern among scientists worldwide. Researchers have used bibliometrics to analyse research productivity and the impact of climate change research output. This study aimed at analysing the trends of research output on climate change in Tanzania from 1964 to 2021. Specifically, the study investigates the growth of publications and citation impact on climate change in Tanzania during the period under study. Data were searched, retrieved and analysed from Dimensions.ai. The results show that the trend of publications on climate change in Tanzania is growing with peak production in 2020 and 2021. Researchers in developed nations like USA, UK, and Germany have significantly contributed to the production of publications on the subject and so are their citations. Renowned public universities and research institutions in Tanzania have contributed more publications on the subject. Research outputs published in Open Access are increasingly contributing to climate change scholarly research output. Researchers from developed countries are highly cited compared to local researchers. Comparing the productivity of research institutions in Tanzania, the University of Dar es Salaam, Sokoine University of Agriculture, and the Nelson Mandela Institute of Science and Technology have a large share of publications and citations on climate change. Publications from high Impact Factor open-access journals are highly cited. This study recommends further studies on climate change using bibliometrics including assessing the impact of climate change publications on policy influence in the country.

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Bibliometric Analysis of Climate Change Publications in Tanzania from 1964 to 2021

Muneja¹

2023

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“…Books per person decreased between 2011 and 2020 in both EPSCoR and non-EPSCoR states (Figure 5). Decreasing academic book publications in the social sciences has been documented elsewhere (Savage & Olejniczak, 2022), but the breadth of declining books authored across disciplines and universities we document here has not been reported previously, to our knowledge. In 2011, non-EPSCoR state authors published 46.3% more books per person per year on average; in 2020, the gap was only 19.3%.…”

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A Comparative Longitudinal Study of Research Outputs in EPSCoR versus Non-EPSCoR States

Mohammadi¹,

Olejniczak²,

Walker³

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Some states in the U.S. have traditionally received less federal research funding than other states. The National Science Foundation (NSF) created a program in 1979, called the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to enhance the research competitiveness in such EPSCoR states. While it is well established that the EPSCoR states receive significantly less federal research funding than non-EPSCoR states, the overall impact of federal funding on research performance of EPSCoR and non-EPSCoR has not been previously studied. In the current study, we compared the combined research productivity of Ph.D. granting institutions in EPSCoR versus the non-EPSCoR states to better understand the scientific impact of the federal investments in sponsored research across all states. The research outputs we measured included journal articles and books published, citations of journal articles, presentations at scientific conferences, and patents. Unsurprisingly, results indicated that the non-EPSCoR states received significantly more federal research funding than their EPSCoR counterparts, which correlated with higher number of faculty members in the non-EPSCoR vs EPSCoR states. Also, in the overall research productivity expressed on per capita basis, the non-EPSCoR states fared better than EPSCoR states. However, when the research output was measured based on per $1M investment of federal research funding, EPSCoR states were found to perform significantly better than the non-EPSCoR states in all research productivity indicators except patents. Together, this study found preliminary evidence that EPSCoR states performed very well in overall research productivity despite receiving significantly fewer federal research dollars. Limitations and next steps of this study are discussed.

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“…Similar trends exist in the social sciences. Savage and Olejniczak (2022) investigated the publication record of university faculty at 290 doctoral granting institutions in the US and found a mean rates of increase in journal publications in 12 social science fields of 38% over the 10-year period between 2011 and 2019, ranging from a low of three percent for economics to highs of 64 and 61% for educational psychology and social work respectively.…”

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Grounding and Deepening Academic Writing in Human Resource Development: The Role of Selecting and Representing the Supporting Literature

Kuchinke

2023

Human Resource Development Review

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That all academic writing should be based on a comprehensive review of previous research is well understood. Yet how to accomplish this task given the burgeoning literature in our field and in the many contributing fields of study has received surprisingly little attention in publishing guidelines in HRD and related fields. To encourage the development of HRD scholarship as a distinct and yet interdisciplinary body of knowledge, discernment, justification, and clarity about the selection and representation of the existing literature are needed in three areas. Domain specificity is concerned with the link to the HRD disciplinary base, practice relevance situates the work in a recognized HRD practice domain, and communicative interest clarifies the author’s value stance. The conclusion addresses implications for novice and experienced writers, the training of graduate and professional students, and the editorial policies of the leading HRD journals.

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More journal articles and fewer books: Publication practices in the social sciences in the 2010’s

Cited by 29 publications

References 25 publications

Bibliometric Analysis of Climate Change Publications in Tanzania from 1964 to 2021

Bibliometric Analysis of Climate Change Publications in Tanzania from 1964 to 2021

A Comparative Longitudinal Study of Research Outputs in EPSCoR versus Non-EPSCoR States

Grounding and Deepening Academic Writing in Human Resource Development: The Role of Selecting and Representing the Supporting Literature

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