Web Publishing and Educational Scholarship: where issues of form and content meet

This essay explores new forms of publication that are gaining wider and wider use within scholarly communities across a range of disciplines. The most important of these include: on‐line journals; publication (of a sort) within listservs or other on‐line discussion groups; self‐publishing. Each of these can take a variety of forms. My primary concern here is with how these new forms of publication are influencing the kinds of scholarship that are taking shape in on‐line contexts and how these new types of scholarship, in turn, raise new questions about credibility, authorship and intellectual ownership and the criteria used for academic evaluation.     

The Co-construction of Credibility in Online Product Reviews

Reviews of products on Web sites like Epinions.com make explicit the ways in which credible identities are co-constructed. Product reviews reveal not only how reviewers construct credibility for themselves but also how readers of reviews, through their comments about reviews, ratify and contribute to reviewer credibility. I present a framework and analyze examples of reviews of digital cameras to examine how reviewers of a technical product convey credibility and how review readers coconstruct reviewers' credibility. The framework and analysis can help identify those reviewers who are likely to influence review Web site users.     

The scholarship of teaching and learning: A Special Niche for Faculty at Comprehensive Universities?

We investigated the involvement of faculty members at comprehensive universities in scholarship of teaching and learning publishing activities in four disciplines. Compared to to their publishing rates in research-oriented journals, comprehensive university faculty members were more involved in publishing articles and serving on editorial boards for pedagogical journals. Over the past three decades, the relative involvement in the scholarship of teaching and learning journals by faculty members at comprehensive universities and liberal arts colleges has increased whereas participation by faculty members at research universities has declined.     

Where is the Research on Community College Students?

An understanding of where community college scholarship is published can be beneficial to practitioners seeking to identify and use scholarly evidence to support policies and programs that promote student success. Such an understanding will also benefit aspiring and new scholars seeking to identify community college scholarship. Unfortunately, there has been little effort to document journal characteristics of scholarship focused on community college students. The present study identified, reviewed, and described community college student scholarship published in P–20 education journals between 1990 and 2014. The study also examined trends over time in journals publishing articles focused on community college students. We found a sizable increase in scholarly work published in education journals since 1990—in particular within the past several years. Importantly, results also revealed an underrepresentation of empirical work focused on community college students published in P–20 education, top-tier, and open access journals. A discussion of implications for practice and recommendations for future research was also provided.     

我国百所高职示范院校发表期刊论文的文献计量学研究

通过对百所高职示范校作者自2006-2010年发表在期刊上论文的文献计量分析研究,得出近五年来百所高职作者学术研究的进展和趋势。从论文产出地区分布、机构分布,反映出地区之间、高职学院之间成果产出存在的巨大差异,而深圳职业技术学院是百所师范校中的佼佼者。还可以看出核心作者群体和录用高职论文较多的期刊情况。     

论编辑策划对学术研究的负面影响

图书的编辑策划,主要是考虑市场行情,主要是对市场的应对,较少考虑学术本身；已有定评的学术名著编辑策划出版成功的多一些,而原创性学术著作策划成功较少或极少。学术刊物编辑的策划,在凸现某些学术话题的同时,也无意中遮蔽了另外一些有意义的学术话题。编辑策划为不少学者定了选题、定了研究方向。不应当是学者们跟着编辑的策划走,正相反,编辑策划应当为学者们的学术创新、学术原创服务!特别是那些带有原始创新特点的研究成果更应当成为图书或刊物选题策划的首选。编辑策划在一定程度上指挥学术研究的状况必须改变。一定要给自由来稿留下应有的空间,这应当成为出版社和学术刊物的工作惯例。     

Creating Knowledge for Advocacy: The Discourse of Research at a Conservation Organization

In the field of conservation, the distinction between academic research and advocacy appears to be undergoing a shift as the number of PhD-level researchers at conservation advocacy organizations grows. Drawing on my case study of one researcher at a prominent conservation nongovernmental organization (NGO), I have shown how this shift is manifested in the communication of NGO research. My study includes a discourse analysis of this researcher's publications from the forums of both scholarship and advocacy including, as a representation of discourse in the latter forum, gray literature (reports, books, and other texts produced and distributed outside the channels of the academic and publishing industry). I have also drawn on my interviews with this researcher about her publications. My study highlights specific features typical of her rhetoric that result from her occupying a hybridized cultural and professional space where research and advocacy overlap.     

关于我国高校学报改革几个重点问题的讨论

面对我国文化出版业新一轮的体制改革,占期刊总数1/4的我国高校学报不可能游离其外.高校学报应顺应出版业改革大势,把握专业化、特色化的发展方向,探索做大做强的运作模式,实行开放办刊,建立有效的学报质量综合评估机制,激发自身的办刊活力和学术创造力,促进我国高校学报健康、有序的发展.     

Towards a philosophy of academic publishing

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. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of editors and reviewers of academic journals mostly in the fields of education and philosophy. The paper is the result of a collective writing process.     

PhD by Publication: innovative approach to social science research,or operationalisation of the doctoral student … or both?

ABSTRACT

The PhD by Publication offers doctoral students an opportunity to focus on publishing during their candidature. A considerable body of literature has explored questions of legitimacy, consistency and quality of this model of scholarship, while students have reflected on how this approach helped build a publishing track record and develop skills associated with writing scholarly articles [Jackson, D. (2013). Completing a PhD by publication: A review of Australian policy and implications for practice. Higher Education Research & Development, 32(3), 355–368; Robins, L., & Kanowski, P. (2008). PhD by publication: A student’s perspective. Journal of Research Practice, 4(2), 1–20]. However, there is a need to explore how this approach both shapes and reflects the student experience of doctoral studies. This auto-ethnographical article analyses my own experience of the PhD by Publication. On the one hand, this method suited my multidisciplinary research topic and approach to research and assisted the flexibility and creativity of my research. On the other, I began to view my value as a researcher and the value of my research, in terms of the quantitative performance metrics of research in output, citation counts and h-index. Concept of performativity, I analyse how the PhD by Publication potentially reshapes what it is to be a doctoral student, and how the value of doctoral students is construed by themselves and others within their university.     

Analysing the literature on university social responsibility: A review of selected higher education journals

In the last 30 years, different economic, political and social changes have taken place in the university sector and this has led to an extensive reform to meet the new societal challenges that these institutions are facing today. This emphasises the social dimension of universities and their important role in society as educators of future leaders and policy makers. This reveals the need to integrate social responsibility principles into the mainstream functions of universities. In view of these comments, this paper offers a review of the literature about university social responsibility during the period from 2000 to 2015. The objectives of the review are to: explore patterns in publication outlets; collect, scrutinise and critically analyse the current literature on this field; to identify gaps in the literature and make recommendations for further research in this field. To accomplish this task, data were collected from 15 specialist academic journals that focus on higher education.     

高校学报编辑在维护学术规范中的责任

高校学报编辑作为出版的把关人、学术规范的执行者,必须时刻牢记自己的责任。维护学术规范、建设良好学风、繁荣学术研究、抵制学术腐败,已成为编辑出版者关注、参与和互动的义不容辞的职责,编辑在维护学术规范中的重要作用愈来愈受到社会的承认,所以说,在学术成果从研究到问世,都包含着编辑的辛勤劳动。在抵制学术成果和出版中的不端行为、营造和谐的学术生态中,编辑应发挥积极推动和模范作用。同时,编辑还应加强自身的规范建设,努力促进学术规范建设落到实处。     

Research trends in instructional design and technology journals

Using the online Scopus database, we retrieved all instructional design and technology (IDT) scholarship between 2007 and 2017 across 65 journals. In this paper, we analyzed the research and trends in this corpus of IDT scholarship and investigated the top cited papers, keywords, authors, publishing countries and publishing universities. We also analyzed the effect of collaboration on citation numbers as well as how journal citation metrics differ across databases (eg, Scopus, Google Scholar). The field of IDT is broad and diverse, and this paper plays an important role in providing a glance into the past to understand scholarship trends. Knowing our history can help us reassess where we should go moving forward as the field continues to grow in the 21st century.     

学术期刊数字出版之重要性刍议

数字出版是以数字化技术手段进行的出版活动。学术期刊数字出版有利于提高学术研究成果的查询速度和利用效率,有利于扩大学术研究成果的影响,有利于加快学术研究的速度,有利于加速学术研究的国际化进程。     

2000-2009年我国“体裁”研究状况分析

文章对国内体裁研究状况的分析从发表年份、研究方法和研究内容三方面进行。从发表年份来看,体裁领域的研究较为稳定,每年都有一定数量的相关文章发表;从研究方法来看,非材料性研究占主导地位,但量化研究和质化研究也呈现出强劲势头;从研究内容来看,十年间的体裁研究大致涵盖五方面的内容：应用性研究、理论介绍、功能语法视角下的体裁研究、比较研究和体裁的互文性。     

Perceptions of rewarding excellence in teaching: motivation and the scholarship of teaching

This article explores the challenges presented in using the scholarship of teaching as a model of teaching excellence when devising an appropriate approach to reward. It argues that the complexity of staff motivation has to be addressed by a critical evaluation of institutions' commitment to the scholarship of teaching. An expectancy model of motivation drawn from organizational behaviour literature is suggested as an approach to analysing the distance between espoused commitment to the scholarship of teaching and academic staff perspectives. The context of the discussion is set against the background of the UK Government's approach to funding incentives to promote reward for teaching excellence in higher education and the literature related to practices employed in HEIs. The views of academic staff drawn from seven focus groups across all subject areas in one institution demonstrate the need to take account of the motivation process and the need to have a shared understanding of what constitutes excellence.     

Charting the development of knowledge on Soviet and post-Soviet education through the pages of comparative and international education journals

This paper examines 126 research articles from three comparative education journals to chart the development of knowledge within comparative education on the Soviet Union and post-Soviet countries. Thematic, theoretical, discursive, and methodological aspects of scholarship are linked with changing geopolitical realities in a systematic analysis of scholarship published since the late 1950s. A new framework of multi-layered colonialism is introduced to explore different features of the double disadvantage that comparative education knowledge production on post-Soviet countries has faced – Russian imperialism and Western academic colonialism. The paper contributes to comparative education knowledge creation by historicising our understanding of Western academic output and outlining a potential future direction in the development of knowledge on post-Soviet systems, policies, and practices of education.