About this Research Topic
Debates about research and staff assessment have been going on for a very long time, with no real solution. Researchers and the Global South are constantly voicing the disparity in research infrastructure that affects the representation of their research results in the international research scene. They have also voiced protests about the way staff and research performance measurement is skewed towards the Global North's standards, terms and conditions, for example: the use of H index in proposal selection and new staff recruitment.
Amid protests about the application of Journal Impact Factors and other citation-based metrics to measure academic performance, researchers from the Global South are still working hard to be able to publish their research results in prestigious journals.
In addition, it is also interesting to study the practices agreed by the community in various fields of science in various countries. For example, the practice of communicating geological disasters in prone areas in the field of geoscience will definitely be different from other sciences. Whether a unique and tailor-made practice such as the example is also affected by the uniformity of how academic performance has been measured is a question that can be answered in this special collection.
The purposes of compiling this collection are to identify:
1. in detail the various research and staff assessment regulations in the various countries in the Global South.
2. the existing motivations when writing an academic publication.
3. whether the two considerations above and/or other considerations influence the researchers' decisions when choosing scientific journals to publish their research.
4. unique and tailor-made science communication practices in various fields of science and how it can be accommodated by the regulation in place.
5. the striving strategies from the researchers to follow the regulation.
6. the influence of languages of publication in different disciplines.
7. the variation between local and global topics of interest.
Thus, various questions arise as to what causes this behavior, whether it is solely related to the regulations in force in their country or whether there are other motivations. It will be interesting and valuable for us to study the answer in the form of a systematic collection of scientific papers.
For this reason, we as Topic Editors are collaborating with Frontiers Research Metrics and Analytics to create a special collection on "an analysis of regulations and other motivations behind the behavior of researchers from the Global South in choosing a journal to publish their research and selecting alternative ways to disseminate knowledge".
The Research Topic welcomes (but is not limited to) the following areas of work:
• Research that examines regulations on research and staff assessment regulations that apply nationally, as well as locally in universities.
• Qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research that identifies the motivations of the researcher when writing an academic publication.
• Qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research that examines various academic, technical, and administrative considerations that influence researchers' decisions when choosing scientific journals as a medium for publication of their research.
We welcome the submission of a comprehensive original research as well as opinion piece or perspectives.
Amid protests about the application of Journal Impact Factors and other citation-based metrics to measure academic performance, researchers from the Global South are still working hard to be able to publish their research results in prestigious journals.
In addition, it is also interesting to study the practices agreed by the community in various fields of science in various countries. For example, the practice of communicating geological disasters in prone areas in the field of geoscience will definitely be different from other sciences. Whether a unique and tailor-made practice such as the example is also affected by the uniformity of how academic performance has been measured is a question that can be answered in this special collection.
The purposes of compiling this collection are to identify:
1. in detail the various research and staff assessment regulations in the various countries in the Global South.
2. the existing motivations when writing an academic publication.
3. whether the two considerations above and/or other considerations influence the researchers' decisions when choosing scientific journals to publish their research.
4. unique and tailor-made science communication practices in various fields of science and how it can be accommodated by the regulation in place.
5. the striving strategies from the researchers to follow the regulation.
6. the influence of languages of publication in different disciplines.
7. the variation between local and global topics of interest.
Thus, various questions arise as to what causes this behavior, whether it is solely related to the regulations in force in their country or whether there are other motivations. It will be interesting and valuable for us to study the answer in the form of a systematic collection of scientific papers.
For this reason, we as Topic Editors are collaborating with Frontiers Research Metrics and Analytics to create a special collection on "an analysis of regulations and other motivations behind the behavior of researchers from the Global South in choosing a journal to publish their research and selecting alternative ways to disseminate knowledge".
The Research Topic welcomes (but is not limited to) the following areas of work:
• Research that examines regulations on research and staff assessment regulations that apply nationally, as well as locally in universities.
• Qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research that identifies the motivations of the researcher when writing an academic publication.
• Qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research that examines various academic, technical, and administrative considerations that influence researchers' decisions when choosing scientific journals as a medium for publication of their research.
We welcome the submission of a comprehensive original research as well as opinion piece or perspectives.
Keywords: Inclusive Metrics, Open Science, Measuring Research, Research Assessment
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