Scholarly publishing experience of postgraduate students in Nigerian Universities

Tella, Adeyinka; Onyancha, Bosire

doi:10.1080/08989621.2020.1843444

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“…For example, in a cross-national study, Rayas (2021) Hatch and Skipper (2016) illustrated there are certainly some high performing graduate students, whose publication record rivals that of an assistant professor. At the same time, there are other studies (e.g., Rayas, 2021;Tella & Onyancha, 2021), which demonstrated that the average student still did not publish very much. A study by Garbati & Samuels, 2013, covering educational psychology, language studies, literacy studies and general education, also pointed to a very low share of student authors overall.…”

Section: Student Publishingmentioning

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“…In the United Kingdom, only 72 students from a cohort of 515 British medical students had submitted an article for publication. Focusing on several disciplines (including the social sciences; Tella & Onyancha, 2021, p. 398) reported that in a survey completed at 12 Nigerian universities with 931 respondents, only 217 graduate students had publication experience in the form of book chapters, conference proceedings, or journal articles.…”

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Student publishing in peer reviewed journals: Evidence from the International Political Science Review

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Publishing in peer-reviewed journals has become an essential requirement for PhD students wishing to pursue a career in academia. Yet, there are few studies of student publishing and little discussion of norms around attribution of authorship for student research collaborators. (1) How often do students feature as submitters and authors in political science journals?(2) In what format (i.e., solo author, co-author, multiple authors) do students normally submit and publish? (3) Are there gender differences in student submission and publication rates between male and female students? This article uses 2 years of data from the International Political Science Review (IPSR; i.e., 2019 and 2020) to answer these questions. Mainly using crosstabulations, we found that just one in eight submitting authors was a student (i.e., undergraduate and postgraduate). In terms of acceptance rates, students had generally lower acceptance rates than faculty. Yet, there were also important differences within the student body. As expected PhD students were more successful than undergraduate and masters' students, and in line with general disciplinary publishing patterns, female PhD students had a higher publication success rate than their male colleagues.

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“…Par exemple, ces études démontrent que les étudiants (Fasola et Olabode 2014; Owolabi, Jimoh et Okpeh 2010) et les médecins (Norbert et Lwoga 2013) de ces pays font face à de multiples barrières, surtout économiques, dans leur processus de recherche d'information. Les problèmes les plus courants sont les coupures de courant, ou délestage (Norbert et Lwoga 2013;Oluwaseye 2014), les problèmes de connexion Internet (Tella et Onyancha 2021;Piron et Mboa Nkoudou 2016), l'insuffisance des laboratoires informatiques et le manque de personnel qualifié dans les bibliothèques (Fasola et Olabode 2014;Ouangré et Tamboura 2015;Owolabi, Jimoh et Okpeh 2010). En effet, la plupart des pays africains ne disposent toujours pas de connexion Internet rapide et n'ont pas les ressources nécessaires pour acquérir le matériel et les logiciels (Malik et Mahmood 2009;Nkomo, Ocholla et Jacobs 2011).…”

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Les défis informationnels pour les étudiants au doctorat en médecine au Burkina Faso

Ouangré

Laplante²

2023

cjils-rcsib

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Cette étude examine comment les étudiants au doctorat en médecine s’y prennent pour trouver l’information dont ils ont besoin dans le cadre de la réalisation de leur thèse. Un questionnaire et des entrevues semi-dirigées ont été utilisés comme instruments de collecte de données auprès d’étudiants au doctorat en médecine de l’Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé au Burkina Faso. L’analyse des résultats montre que les sources numériques sont plus utilisées que les sources imprimées. Les barrières les plus importantes auxquelles les étudiants se heurtent sont : les coûts directs pour accéder à l’information, c’est-à-dire les frais pour commander des articles scientifiques (barrières économiques); les délestages, l’instabilité de la connexion Internet et les ressources limitées des bibliothèques universitaires (barrières environnementales); les contraintes de temps (barrières situationnelles); la rareté de la documentation scientifique médicale en langue française et en contexte africain (barrières liées aux caractéristiques des sources). Nos résultats montrent cependant que les étudiants font preuve de débrouillardise et de créativité pour trouver des stratégies et surmonter certaines de ces barrières.

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“…It casts doubt on long-established scholarly journals that have not been able to meet the exacting demands of the journal citation indexes, and it makes succeeding in new African publishing initiatives even more difficult. West African academics have also adopted this terminology, researching the 'penetration' of Nigerian medical journals by 'predatory' publishers (Nwagwu and Ojemeni 2015) and the awareness of 'predatory' publishing practices among Ghanaian researchers (Tella and Onyancha 2021;Atiso et al 2019). In the face of this discourse of suspicionand its amplification by Nigerian researchers themselvesmore journals risk being labelled as potentially 'predatory', and the quality thresholds set for inclusion in Scopus or Web of Science become ever more demanding.…”

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“…There is little support and guidance available, and, despite calls to decolonize publishing infrastructures (Meagher 2021;Okune et al 2021), there are few alternative avenues to international recognition. It is no surprise that many Nigerian researchers feel that they are competing on an unevenand even racialized playing field (Tella and Onyancha 2021).…”

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Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy

Mills

Branford

2022

Africa

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Why are Nigeria’s universities launching a growing number of open access journals while simultaneously expecting their academic staff to publish ‘internationally’? And what impact do these expectations have on Nigerian journals? Drawing on interviews with editors and publishers, we describe the emergence of a hyperlocal ‘credibility economy’ within the Nigerian academy. The great majority of Nigerian scholarly journals are excluded from Scopus and Web of Science, the two main global citation indexes. Stigmatized by geography, Nigerian journals are ignored, rendered invisible, classed as poor quality or condemned as ‘predatory’. Historicizing these trends, we illustrate our argument with four case studies: two science and technology journals hosted by universities and two independent publishers, one with expertise in African studies, the other in information studies. In each case, we explore the motivations, commitments and strategies of editors and publishers. Their stories exemplify the impact of colonial histories, global discourses and bibliometric infrastructures on African research publishing cultures. The histories, logics and fragilities of this regional research ecosystem reveal how Africa’s scholars and publishers are getting by – but only just – amid the metricized judgements of the global research economy.

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Scholarly publishing experience of postgraduate students in Nigerian Universities

Cited by 11 publications

References 40 publications

Student publishing in peer reviewed journals: Evidence from the International Political Science Review

Student publishing in peer reviewed journals: Evidence from the International Political Science Review

Les défis informationnels pour les étudiants au doctorat en médecine au Burkina Faso

Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy

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