Perish or Publish in China: Pressures on Young Chinese Scholars to Publish in Internationally Indexed Journals

« To boost their research productivities, Chinese universities are putting great pressure on their research-active staff to publish in internationally indexed journals. However, the emerging publish-or-perish culture in China has seen little empirical investigation thus far.

In the research reported in this article, semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven young researchers in science and engineering disciplines at a research-centered university in central China.

The study showed that these young scholars faced great pressure to publish papers in internationally indexed journals. Consequently, the participants were reluctant to spend time on other academic activities, including teaching training. (…) »

source > http://microblogging.infodocs.eu, Hans Dillaerts, 1 avril 2016

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