Swedish business research productivity

There existed discrimination, including gender discrimination, first degree discrimination, etc., when assessing the future research productivity of PhD graduates in recruitment in China’s mainland. Were PhD students who did not possess certain conditions (e.g. first degree receiving from a non-key university) unable to achieve high research productivity after graduation? Previous studies focused on the “net effects” of individual and organizational characteristics on research productivity by using quantitative methods (e.g. regression analysis). However, researchers’ research productivity might be due to the interactions of multiple factors rather than a single factor. This study aimed to analyze the effects of the combined conditions (interactions) of individual and organizational characteristics on the research productivity of early career library and information science (LIS) researchers under the context of employment discrimination in the academic job market of China’s mainland. Early career LIS researchers who graduated from China’s mainland universities/institutions between 2011 and 2015 were selected as the sample ( n = 62). csQCA was employed to analyze the data. The results revealed that the effects of a single condition did not directly contribute to the occurrence of high research productivity. There were two combinations of conditions that could contribute to the high research productivity of early career LIS researchers. The first combination that contributed to the high research productivity of an early career LIS researcher was receiving his or her bachelor’s degree from a key university, publishing higher than the median number of articles indexed by Web of Science core collections (WOS) during their PhD and working in a key university after PhD graduation. The second combination was being male, publishing more than the median number of articles indexed by the WOS and the local core journals index during their PhD, and working at a key university after PhD graduation.

Research quality and efficiency: An analysis of assessments and management issues in Dutch economics and business research programs

The question addressed here is whether and how the increase of research funding in higher education leads to a higher scientific productivity and to an increased impact measured by current procedures (i.e. Hirsch and Egghe index score distributions). Recently collected data from the Romanian universities show that increased financial resources is associated with an inflated number of publications which have a rather low impact. We thus follow the idea that higher research productivity and impact is not determined only by growing funding, but also by appropriate policy incentives. Consequently, we analyze the institutional arrangements carried away by the recently implemented reforms in the Romanian higher education and suggest that their institutional incentives could also bring along an increase in the impact of research productivity. In the context of economic crisis and scarcity of public resources, we argue that a higher research productivity and impact may better be delivered through providing institutional incentives that generate responsible and efficient resource allocation and spending in university research centers.

Body: Background: Reputation of integrated plastic surgery residency programs is associated with greater academic productivity of their full-time faculty and matched applicants, but whether this influences research output during residency is unknown. This study aims to determine whether program reputation and other factors influence academic productivity of integrated plastic surgery residents. Methods: Programs were divided into 4 tiers based on Doximity rankings (top 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, > 60). Residents from 2019-2020 were found through program websites and social media accounts. Works published during residency were identified from July 1 of their intern year to August 29, 2020 through PubMed and Scopus. Variables included resident gender, medical school, and the ranking, geographic region, and medical school affiliation of the residency program. High research productivity was defined as having at least as many publications as the 75th percentile of residents adjusted by year of training. Statistical analysis included Chi-Square and multivariate regression (α=0.05). Results: As of August 2020, 920 residents in 81 integrated plastic surgery programs were identified. The mean number of publications overall was 4.98 (range 0-78) and the mean number of publications adjusted for year of training was 1.58 (range 0-17.5). On multivariate analysis, residents in top 20 programs (OR=2.4, p<0.001) and from top 50 research medical schools (OR=1.5, p=0.009) were more likely to have higher research output. Residents in programs in the West and Northeast as well as in programs affiliated with a top 20 research medical school had higher productivity, although this was insignificant when taking other variables into account. Gender did not significantly influence research output. Conclusion: Program ranking and medical school research reputation are associated with research productivity during integrated plastic surgery residency. More reputable institutions are likely to have greater resources. Applicants interested in dedicating their careers to research should consider programs at such institutions.

The distinguished contributors advance the current research frontier in three novel directions which focus on: the role of human capital and talent for creativity, entrepreneurship and regional development; the role of institutions for the behaviour of firms and entrepreneurs; and the influence of the global context on the location, export and innovation behaviour of firms in a knowledge economy.

High-quality research is the foundation of occupational therapy and physical therapy/physiotherapy. A bibliometric study on the research productivity of occupational therapy and physical therapy/physiotherapy scholars in different Western and Asian countries/regions could provide a snapshot of current research achievement in rehabilitation science. On the basis of an understanding of the leading role of rehabilitation research in Western countries and a recognition of achievements made by Asian occupational therapy and physical therapy/physiotherapy scholars, the current bibliometric study examined the research productivity of occupational therapy and physical therapy/physiotherapy professors and associate professors from four Western countries (Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom) and five Asian countries/regions (Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea). The h-indices of these scholars were retrieved online and aggregated to quantify the research productivity of institutions and countries/regions. Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and the United States were identified as countries/regions with higher research productivity in occupational therapy and physical therapy/physiotherapy. The institutions were ranked on the basis of the median h-indices of their professors and associate professors; the top 20 productive institutions with occupational therapy programmes had a median h-index of 17.5 or higher, whereas the benchmark of the top 20 institutions with physical therapy/physiotherapy programmes was 25. Professors and associate professors in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and the United States are productive in occupational therapy and physical therapy/physiotherapy research. The number of faculty members and university connections are regarded as important for research achievement. Recommendations for various levels of collaboration are provided.

Although physicians' research productivity contributes to evidence-based practice and health-system learning, productivity is uneven, and little is known about individual-level traits linked with high output in Arab Gulf settings. This study examined physician characteristics associated with higher scientific publication productivity in Bahrain. Cross-sectional study of practicing physicians in Bahrain across primary and secondary healthcare and government/private sectors. Data included age, gender, years of experience, career level, sector and care setting, and lifetime number of peer-reviewed publications. High productivity was defined as ≥5 publications. Associations were examined using chi-square tests and multivariable logistic regression (SPSS v30.0). In total, 239 physicians were responded to the survey (mean age 37.58 ± 11.15 years; 66.5% female; 75.3% government sector; 71.1% secondary care). One in five (≈20%) reported ≥5 publications, while about one-third had none. In univariate analyses, higher productivity was associated with male gender, age ≥40 years, ≥15 years' experience, advanced career level, and secondary practice (all p ≤ 0.001). In multivariable modelling, adjusted odds ratios (ORs) were produced for employment in secondary healthcare remained strongly associated with high productivity (OR 7.364, 95% CI 1.992, 27.225; p = 0.003). Employment in the private sector was associated with lower odds compared with government sector (OR 0.634, 95% CI 0.259, 1.553; p = 0.319). Female gender showed a trend toward lower odds compared to their male counterparts (OR 0.449, 95% CI 0.197, 1.024; p = 0.057). Research productivity among physicians in Bahrain is concentrated in a small, predominantly male, at advanced career stages and hospital-based doctors, suggesting structural and career-stage inequities in research engagement. An urgent need exists within the healthcare system for a more inclusive research culture that spans primary and secondary healthcare, government and private sectors, and male and female physicians alike.

This study aims to map the development of waqf and legal studies indexed in the Scopus database in the period 2016-2025 with a bibliometric approach. The analysis was carried out to identify the main trends, patterns of collaboration between authors, distribution of publications based on institutional and country affiliations, and characteristics of journal sources that became publication media. The bibliometric method was applied by utilizing VOSviewer software for co-occurrence network visualization and Microsoft Excel for quantitative data processing and analysis. The results show that Indonesia (43.5%) and Malaysia (23.1%) are the countries with the highest research productivity in this field, with significant contributions from the United States (11.6%). The International Islamic University was recorded as the academic institution with the highest number of publications (15.4%), followed by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Universitas Padjajaran (13.5% each). From an individual perspective, publication patterns show a relatively even distribution, with 40% of researchers producing three publications and 60% of researchers producing two publications. Analysis of journal sources revealed that the three main journals served as publication platforms for 13.9% of the total articles analyzed. Temporal trends show a significant increase in research productivity, with the highest spike in 2024 (22 publications) and the most notable acceleration of research occurring in the period 2018-2021. These findings indicate significant developments in waqf studies, particularly in countries with predominantly Muslim populations, and point to a growing research ecosystem with a wider diversification of publication platform.

Reducing nutrition-related health problems in Arab countries requires an understanding of the performance of Arab countries in the field of nutrition and dietetics research. Assessment of research activity from a particular country or region could be achieved through bibliometric analysis. This study was carried out to investigate research activity in “nutrition and dietetics” in Arab countries. Original and review articles published from Arab countries in “nutrition and dietetics” Web of Science category up until 2012 were retrieved and analyzed using the ISI Web of Science database. The total number of documents published in “nutrition and dietetics” category from Arab countries was 2062. This constitutes 1% of worldwide research activity in the field. Annual research productivity showed a significant increase after 2005. Approximately 60% of published documents originated from three Arab countries, particularly Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia. However, Kuwait has the highest research productivity per million inhabitants. Main research areas of published documents were in “Food Science/Technology” and “Chemistry” which constituted 75% of published documents compared with 25% for worldwide documents in nutrition and dietetics. A total of 329 (15.96%) nutrition - related diabetes or obesity or cancer documents were published from Arab countries compared with 21% for worldwide published documents. Interest in nutrition and dietetics research is relatively recent in Arab countries. Focus of nutrition research is mainly toward food technology and chemistry with lesser activity toward nutrition-related health research. International cooperation in nutrition research will definitely help Arab researchers in implementing nutrition research that will lead to better national policies regarding nutrition.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-3-718) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Across the globe, academic staff members of accredited tertiary education institutions are expected to perform tasks pertaining to teaching and learning, research, and community engagement. Particularly in a South African dispensation, research shows that many accredited tertiary education institutions’ academic staff members have excessive teaching and learning workloads which, in turn, adversely affect their research productivity – their abilities to publish research outputs (e.g. articles, conference papers, and books). It should be noted that for every accredited research output produced by a South African accredited tertiary education institution, it is entitled to subsidy income from the Department of Higher Education and Training. Regardless of the foregoing, there is a reported decline in research productivity of South African accredited tertiary education institution academic staff members. As such, for this study, the phenomenon of Research Collaboration and Networking (RECON) was explored as an intervention to overcome this problem. Empirical research was conducted through means of mixed-method research from where data were collected from a RECON group attached to the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences at an accredited South African tertiary education institution. Stemming from the results, RECON appeared to have a positive influence on the research productivity of sampled academics; alluding to the recommendation that dedicated time should be allocated for RECON-related tasks on individual teaching and learning timetables of South African accredited tertiary education institutions’ academic staff.

This article traces the journey of service research by analyzing the articles contributed by researchers from Asia based on research productivity and research paradigm. The research analyzes top service journals from 2009 to 2016. The findings suggest high productivity of researchers from Taiwan. Survey research is widely used followed by mathematical modeling, lab experiments, interviews, conceptual modeling, theoretical modeling, and case study. Most researched topics observed such as customer satisfaction and relationship, service quality and performance, service marketing, service delivery, and service operations. The study provides valuable insights and highlights the contributions of Asian researchers to the field.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other large language models are rapidly infiltrating the world of education and educational research. These new technological developments raise questions about use and ethics throughout the world of educational research, particularly for qualitative methods given the philosophical and structural foundations of its associated designs. This paper seeks to interrogate the perceived ethics around the use of AI in qualitative research and draws on survey data from qualitative researchers (n = 101) collected from April-May 2023. Findings indicate that researchers were more apt to embrace the use of AI for transcription purposes, and to a lesser extent for preliminary coding. Researchers from high research productivity (R1) universities were generally less accepting of AI's use in the research process than other researchers.

Using the gradual promotion of China’s low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCPP) as a quasi-natural experiment, this study investigates the impact of comprehensive environmental regulation on green innovation represented by green patents of listed industrial enterprises. Our results revealed that enterprises located in cities with LCCPP produced a high intensity and volume of green patents. LCCPP increased the proportion of green invention, green utility model, and total green patents by 1.26%, 0.72%, and 0.84%, respectively. Moreover, we found that enterprises located in eastern cities and those with high research and development intensity and productivity were likely to benefit most from LCCPP, and LCCPP also triggered green innovation in high-emission and high-energy-consuming industrial sectors. Our results suggest that, for developing economies, a flexible and comprehensive environmental regulation that combines command-and-control and market-based regulations would be preferable for promoting enterprises’ green innovation.

An increasing number of publications in R&D management embrace the concept of social capital to observe, measure, and explain very different phenomena, such as R&D knowledge diffusion patterns; research productivity on the individual, team, and regional levels; and the governance and structure of R&D alliances and partnerships. The various research findings are difficult to compare, contrast, and integrate, since no coherent definition of social capital exists. To close this gap, this paper proposes a framework for social capital in R&D management that describes three dimensions of social capital (structural, relational, cognitive) and their links to R&D knowledge transfer. The framework is theoretically derived from social science literature, in which the concept of social capital first originated, and the recent R&D management literature. The framework is subsequently used to guide the inquiry in a case study of a complex, multi-year knowledge transfer process between a university and a high-tech company. The case study shows the complex impact of all three social capital dimensions on R&D knowledge transfer and supports the proposed frameworks as a useful tool for R&D management research on social capital.KeywordsSocial CapitalKnowledge TransferCognitive DimensionStructural HoleInternational Joint VentureThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Currently, the electronics industry in Taiwan is primarily of high-tech Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Original Design Manufacturer (ODM). Electronics industry is not only capital- and technology-intensive, but also energy-intensive. Since the Kyoto Global Warming Conference in December 1997, the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial processes has become an important issue. The electronics industry in Taiwan often encounters lack of energy consumption benchmark during the design,operating, maintence stage when promoting and executing energy conservation. The goals of this thesis is to provide specific energy consumption as references for the industries, plant builders, and Energy Service Company (ESCO), thereby help enhance the energy efficiency, reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, and the competitiveness of the electronics industries. The scope of this study includes six electronic product types: IC packaging, IC testing, flash memory, cell phones, uninterrupted electric system (UPS), and Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCC). The measured unit energy consumption is based on 100% productivity of the actual manufacturing process. In addition, the sampled plants’ production must account for more than 60% of the national production. The data collection method is based on audited reports, on-site observations, and telephone interviews. Based on the various reports, surveys analyis, and discussions with the manufacturers, we arrived at the following consensus regarding the specific energy consumption, conservation, and reduction of emission CO2 .If based on the top runnig of specific energy comsunption to improve process and faicily efficiency. The energy savig and reduction of CO2 emission can be achieve 346,865,180 kwh and 220,953ton.