Publishing? You can count on knowledge, experience, and expectations

The study based on an online survey covering 655 researchers from hard and soft sciences addresses the infuence of diferent conditions on academic publishing. Results show that (1) hard sciences academics publish more than soft sciences; (2) there are resemblances in academic publishing; (3) there are diferences in the sufcient conditions sets for the two groups of sciences which may be explained by diferences in scientifc conceptual frameworks and research methods applied in each group of disciplines; (4) conditions leading to the absence of publishing reveal similarities and diferences among hard and soft sciences academics. The study contribute to: (1) the debate on the questionable generalization of scientifc publications indexes and rankings due to the nature of research published coming from diferent scientifc universes; (2) identify pathways for achieving higher performance in academic publishing; (3) allow research centers’ managers to better manage the centers aiming to achieve upper output levelsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The determinants of research performance in European universities. A large scale multilevel analysis

The paper examines the research performance of European universities in a disaggregated way, using a large array of indicators from Scopus publications, including indicators of volume (number of articles; number of citations) and indicators of quality (percentage of publications in top 10% and top 25% SNIP journals; percentage of citations from top 10% and top 25% journals). These indicators are considered dependent variables in a multi-level estimation framework, in which research performance in a scientific area depends on variables at the level of university and at the level of the external regional environment. The area examined is Medicine, for the 2007–2010 period. The paper exploits for the first time the integration of publication data with the census of European universities (ETER). A large number of hypotheses are tested and discussed