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Sarpong, Joshua – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: In recent times, universities have been faced with the challenge of implementing neoliberal ideas as a survival tactic. For instance, there is increasing pressure on academics globally to publish because of performance funding and other metrics like global rankings, which consider where and how much academics publish. This study explores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Incentives, College Faculty
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Kay Hammond; Julie Trafford – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
The peer review of journal article manuscripts is a complex and emotionally fraught process. This article draws on how 25 academic authors used metaphor to describe their experiences of manuscript peer review. A critical analysis of these metaphors provided insight into the structures, relationships of power, and their emotional impacts. Over…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Writing for Publication, Peer Evaluation, Journal Articles
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Heffernan, Troy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Academic networks have been found to play a significant role in career trajectory via employment opportunities, publishing openings, or being alerted to prospects not widely advertised. These results are reflective of Bourdieu's notion that social capital can see an individual's position within a field (in this article the field of academia)…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Career Development, College Faculty, Higher Education
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Bernardi, Richard A.; Zamojcin, Kimberly A.; Delande, Taylor L. – Accounting Education, 2016
This research tests whether Holderness Jr., D. K., Myers, N., Summers, S. L., & Wood, D. A. [(2014). "Accounting education research: Ranking institutions and individual scholars." "Issues in Accounting Education," 29(1), 87-115] accounting-education rankings are sensitive to a change in the set of journals used. It provides…
Descriptors: Accounting, Authors, Departments, Business Administration Education
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Peters, Michael A.; Jandric, Petar; Irwin, Ruth; Locke, Kirsten; Devine, Nesta; Heraud, Richard; Gibbons, Andrew; Besley, Tina; White, Jayne; Forster, Daniella; Jackson, Liz; Grierson, Elizabeth; Mika, Carl; Stewart, Georgina; Tesar, Marek; Brighouse, Susanne; Arndt, Sonja; Lazaroiu, George; Mihaila, Ramona; Legg, Catherine; Benade, Leon – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication.…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Organizations (Groups), Writing Processes, Collaborative Writing
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Shin, Jung Cheol; Lee, Soo Jeung; Kim, Yangson – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
This study analyzed whether research collaboration patterns differ across higher education systems based on maturity of the systems, their language, and their geographical region. This study found that collaboration patterns differ across higher education systems: academics in developed systems are more collaborative than their colleagues in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research, International Cooperation, Cooperation
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Gladwin, Maree; McDonald, Gael; McKay, Jade – Higher Education Review, 2014
What factors contribute most to career success in academia? Using qualitative methods, the study sought information from eighteen full and chaired professors in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada. Reflecting on factors that contributed to academic success, participants identified: an "inherent" attraction to academic work; ability to…
Descriptors: Success, Career Development, Qualitative Research, Performance Factors
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Adler, Ralph – Accounting Education, 2012
This paper examines publishing trends of New Zealand accounting education scholars over the 20-year period 1991-2010. Longitudinal analyses of the annual number of publications, research theme studied, researcher productivity, and institutional productivity, along with cross-sectional analyses of authors' Hirsch "h"-index scores, the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Foreign Countries, Scholarship, Performance Based Assessment
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Computer Science Education, 2007
A new classification system for computing education papers is presented and applied to every computing education paper published between January 2004 and January 2007 at the two premier computing education conferences in Australia and New Zealand. We find that while simple reports outnumber other types of paper, a healthy proportion of papers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computers, Classification, Computer Science Education
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Peters, Michael A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2009
The Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) and the field of philosophy of education seemed like a natural junction in this author's life. They provided a means by which he could begin to think about the relations between education and his own experiences as a student and teacher, and philosophy. Peters has been editor of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Corporations, Government Role