The role of academic journal publications in the UK Research Assessment Exercise

Bence, Valerie; Oppenheim, Charles

doi:10.1087/095315104322710278

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“…Publishing is often a requirement for academic advancement and brings considerable rewards, 1 especially if the articles are published in high-impact journals. 2,3 The increasing pressure to publish was found to be associated with unethical research practices, such as gift authorship 4 or ghost authorship. 5 In an attempt to ensure honest practices, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) defined contributions making a person eligible for authorship on a scientific article.…”

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Quantification of Authors’ Contributions and Eligibility for Authorship: Randomized Study in a General Medical Journal

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“…Rowland (1997) suggests four, all 'essential to the orderly functioning of a scholarly community': dissemination of information; quality control; providing a canonical archive; and recognition of authors. In relation to the second and fourth of these, such journals have in recent years played an increasingly important role in the development of indicators on which academic careers and the funding of research have been based (see, e.g., Bence & Oppenheim, 2004). To these might be added a fifth function: the role of academic journals in the construction and shaping of fields of study (see, e.g., Wellington & Nixon, 2005).…”

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Forty years of theBJGC: a personal review

Watts

2013

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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The origins and development of the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling are outlined. An analysis is provided of the growth of the journal in terms of the numbers of issues, articles and pages; the use of special features to attract and distinguish particular types of article; and the changing balance between guidance and counselling, between youth and adults, and between UK and overseas contributors. Continuing debates relating to the title of the journal are discussed. The functions of such journals are addressed, along with the possible implications of the current moves towards open access publishing.

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“…In particular, it focused on publication in a number of discipline-based, refereed journals (Geary, Marriott, and Rowlinson, 2004;Bence and Oppenheim, 2004). …”

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The British are not coming!: UK higher education and the nonprofit sector

Palmer

Bogdanova

2008

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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The rationale for the growth of nonprofit management education in the United States has recently been charted by O'Neill (2005). Ten years previously, the United States and the United Kingdom were at similar levels of development. By 2006 the parallel lines had been broken. Why has nonprofit management education expanded in the United States while provision of graduate education for the voluntary sector in the United Kingdom has stood still? This article explores the factors that have prevented parallel growth in education provision. It argues that the university as an institution, both in terms of its nature and its power structures, is one of those factors. It presents the story of the closing of the world' s first voluntary sector course at the London School of Economics and concludes with reflection on the likely future of voluntary sector management education provision in the United Kingdom.I N 2005, MICHAEL O'NEILL described nonprofit management education (NME) as "largely a phenomenon of the past two decades, [one that] has grown rapidly in the United States. The field was virtually nonexistent in 1980; by 2000 there were ninety-one master' s degree programs with at least a concentration in NME, . . . nearly one hundred undergraduate programs, and about fifty universitybased certificate programs. . ." (O'Neill, 2005, p. 5). O'Neill went on to describe the developmental context for this growth with a wideranging analysis of education drivers and the role of the nonprofit sector itself. If O'Neill' s article had been published ten years before, and had academics looked across "the Pond" at the United Kingdom, they would have found a similar picture. In the context of UK voluntary management education, this article reflects on the difficulties in developing management education for the sector and on the factors for underperformance. It specifically addresses the question of what, if anything, can be learned from the closing of the LSE program. The resulting discussion will lead to a fuller understanding of what this implies about the future development for voluntary sector education. The context within which this takes place includes an account of nonprofit sector growth and the changing profile of its management education counterpart, revealing some insights into the difficulties faced. Specifically, the argument is developed by referring to possible influences of voluntary sector culture on management education, a comparative perspective of the UK versus the U.S. experience, relevance of the lessons learned from the LSE case, and a perspective on the influence of external and internal pressures on university education for the sector. MethodologyThis article discusses the difficulties in developing management education for the sector alongside the factors for underperformance. Existing literature and documented trends in the sector are the initial information source used to generate an agenda for discussing current and future trends. 1 More specifically, the issues outlined by the VOLPROF report (Bruce and L...

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The role of academic journal publications in the UK Research Assessment Exercise

Cited by 44 publications

References 25 publications

Quantification of Authors’ Contributions and Eligibility for Authorship: Randomized Study in a General Medical Journal

Quantification of Authors’ Contributions and Eligibility for Authorship: Randomized Study in a General Medical Journal

Forty years of theBJGC: a personal review

The British are not coming!: UK higher education and the nonprofit sector

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