18 research outputs found
Use of text mining for understanding Peruvian students and facultiesâ perceptions on bibliometrics training
Background: Studies on bibliometrics and informetrics training have focused on teachers and curricular expertsâ opinion, only a few studies have examined undergraduate students and practitionersâ perceptions. Objective: To understand how librarianship students and professionals perceive the bibliometrics and informetrics training delivered to them. Methods: For data collection, we used a survey with opened-ended questions, to know the genuine responses of the participants. After working with the automatic term extraction technique, for codifying the answers we employed a data dictionary for quantifying the frequency of occurrences. The software programs used at this stage were ter-MEXt and LWIC. Data analysis was carried out with statistics of mean difference and the correlation coefficient. Results: The output of statistical analysis lets us understood how students and practitioners perceive the bibliometrics and informetrics training delivered to them. Conclusion: Text mining techniques facilitates the processing of responses to opened-ended questions, and contributes with a quantitative approach to analyzing peopleâs opinions
Use of text mining for understanding Peruvian students and facultiesâ perceptions on bibliometrics training
Background: Studies on bibliometrics and informetrics training have focused on teachers and curricular expertsâ opinion, only a few studies have examined undergraduate students and practitionersâ perceptions. Objective: To understand how librarianship students and professionals perceive the bibliometrics and informetrics training delivered to them. Methods: For data collection, we used a survey with opened-ended questions, to know the genuine responses of the participants. After working with the automatic term extraction technique, for codifying the answers we employed a data dictionary for quantifying the frequency of occurrences. The software programs used at this stage were ter-MEXt and LWIC. Data analysis was carried out with statistics of mean difference and the correlation coefficient. Results: The output of statistical analysis lets us understood how students and practitioners perceive the bibliometrics and informetrics training delivered to them. Conclusion: Text mining techniques facilitates the processing of responses to opened-ended questions, and contributes with a quantitative approach to analyzing peopleâs opinions
Congress UPV Proceedings of the 21ST International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators
This is the book of proceedings of the 21st Science and Technology Indicators Conference that took place
in ValĂšncia (Spain) from 14th to 16th of September 2016.
The conference theme for this year, âPeripheries, frontiers and beyondâ aimed to study the development and
use of Science, Technology and Innovation indicators in spaces that have not been the focus of current indicator
development, for example, in the Global South, or the Social Sciences and Humanities.
The exploration to the margins and beyond proposed by the theme has brought to the STI Conference an
interesting array of new contributors from a variety of fields and geographies.
This yearâs conference had a record 382 registered participants from 40 different countries, including 23
European, 9 American, 4 Asia-Pacific, 4 Africa and Near East. About 26% of participants came from outside
of Europe.
There were also many participants (17%) from organisations outside academia including governments (8%),
businesses (5%), foundations (2%) and international organisations (2%). This is particularly important in a
field that is practice-oriented.
The chapters of the proceedings attest to the breadth of issues discussed. Infrastructure, benchmarking
and use of innovation indicators, societal impact and mission oriented-research, mobility and careers, social
sciences and the humanities, participation and culture, gender, and altmetrics, among others.
We hope that the diversity of this Conference has fostered productive dialogues and synergistic ideas and
made a contribution, small as it may be, to the development and use of indicators that, being more inclusive,
will foster a more inclusive and fair world
Institutional Assessment of Health Research Capacity in Uzbekistan : Research Productivity, Organizational Capacity and Research use in Policy
Health research continues to be an important policy instrument in improving populationâs health and building a more resilient health system. As developing countries are unable to meet their national health-research needs, many foreign aid actors have concentrated on improving health research system (HRS) of low-income countries since 1990s. While there is growing interest, there is a gap in the literatures in understanding health research system in the framework of institutions and its actors in a developing country context, which affects the knowledge production and research performance. In light of this argument, the thesis focuses on Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan was ranked as one of the lowest health research producers in the world in 2016. This raises the following question: Has post-soviet political and economic transition brought changes to health research system in Uzbekistan? If so, what was the outcome of change from these reform pressures? To answer this question, this thesis combines elements of neo-institutional theories to analyze the processes of institutional modification in health research system over the past twenty years in Uzbekistan. The results from both quantitative and qualitative analysis revealed that the slow progress in any institutional change in the health sector was due to path dependent traits dating back to more than 60 years of Soviet science management. Basic incentive structures or forced regulatory reforms, which reinforce path-dependent behavior, often failed to create significant change in Uzbek health research performance. Further analysis revealed that causes of (under)performance in Uzbek health research system are complex and deeply rooted, reaching beyond the current circumstances and resources. The institutionalist approach proved useful in understanding transformations in post-soviet countries taking into account the particularities of local/national research institutions
Competitive Risaralda, generating research alliance for development
El presente libro lleva como tĂtulo âRisaralda competitiva, generando alianzas en investigaciĂłn para el desarrolloâ, resultado del V encuentro de investigadores del departamento de Risaralda realizado en el mes de noviembre del año 2020. Evento en el cual se presentaron las Ășltimas investigaciones realizadas en las diferentes instituciones educativas del departamento; quienes hacen parte de la Mesa de Investigaciones de Risaralda; ejercicio de gran interĂ©s que arroja resultados de investigaciones en diferentes ĂĄreas como son las Ciencias AgrĂcolas, Ciencias sociales, Ciencias de la salud, Ciencias de la tecnologĂa y la informaciĂłn
Unmet goals of tracking: within-track heterogeneity of students' expectations for
Educational systems are often characterized by some form(s) of ability grouping, like tracking. Although substantial variation in the implementation of these practices exists, it is always the aim to improve teaching efficiency by creating homogeneous groups of students in terms of capabilities and performances as well as expected pathways. If studentsâ expected pathways (university, graduate school, or working) are in line with the goals of tracking, one might presume that these expectations are rather homogeneous within tracks and heterogeneous between tracks. In Flanders (the northern region of Belgium), the educational system consists of four tracks. Many students start out in the most prestigious, academic track. If they fail to gain the necessary credentials, they move to the less esteemed technical and vocational tracks. Therefore, the educational system has been called a 'cascade system'. We presume that this cascade system creates homogeneous expectations in the academic track, though heterogeneous expectations in the technical and vocational tracks. We use data from the International Study of City Youth (ISCY), gathered during the 2013-2014 school year from 2354 pupils of the tenth grade across 30 secondary schools in the city of Ghent, Flanders. Preliminary results suggest that the technical and vocational tracks show more heterogeneity in studentâs expectations than the academic track. If tracking does not fulfill the desired goals in some tracks, tracking practices should be questioned as tracking occurs along social and ethnic lines, causing social inequality
Imagining the Future of Knowledge Mobilization : Perspectives from UNESCO Chairs
These themes weave through a new portfolio of thought leadership
papers reflecting on the subject of Knowledge Mobilization (KMb): the
process described by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada (SSHRC) as âencompassing a wide range of
activities relating to the production and use of research results,
including knowledge synthesis, dissemination, transfer, exchange,
and co-creation or co-production by researchers and knowledge
users.â1 Such activities, and others referenced in the papers written
by seven members (six Canadian and one German) of the UNESCO
Chairs network, aim to bridge the sometimes-deep divide between
the creation of new knowledge and its application for social benefit.
As several of these papers note, the KMb enterprise has assumed
heightened importance in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and
other grand challenges confronting humanity. But interest in KMb is
not new, and a body of experience lies ready to inform efforts to learn
and improve