Creative Solutions for Higher Education Research Issues In Asia and Beyond
The current system of journal metrics adopted by most Western countries appears to marginalize many Asian and Latin American authors. Impact factors (both at the author and journal levels) rely heavily on citation indices which, understandably, favor Western authors. Of course, impact factors are us...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philippine Association of Institutions for Research, Inc.
2013-01-01
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| Series: | JPAIR Institutional Research Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://philair.ph/index.php/irj/article/view/199 |
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| Summary: | The current system of journal metrics adopted by most Western countries appears to marginalize many Asian and Latin American authors. Impact factors (both at the author and journal levels) rely heavily on citation indices which, understandably, favor Western authors. Of course, impact factors are used heavily in research funding decisions. Creative solutions are explored in this paper for Asian countries experiencing these problems.
Keywords: journal metrics, impact factor, citation indices. |
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| ISSN: | 2244-1824 2244-1816 |