Identification and Validation of Indicators of Research Productivity Evaluation of Iranian Researchers

Rezaei         Mina | Noroozi Chakoli         Abdolreza

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URL :   http://research.shahed.ac.ir/WSR/WebPages/Report/PaperView.aspx?PaperID=10583
Date :  2014/07/13
Publish in :    پژوهشنامه پردازش و مديريت اطلاعات - علوم و فناوري اطلاعات سابق=Iranian Journal of Information Processing Management

Link :  http://jipm.irandoc.ac.ir/browse.php?a_id=2546&sid=1&slc_lang=fa
Keywords :Identification, Indicators, Research, Evaluation

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Abstract: This research aims at identifying and validating the indicators used in evaluating research productivity of Iranian researchers. In order to achieve this aim, survey and documentary methods are used. Research society consists of 80 persons. Sample and members of this sample were selected among from top researchers of the country during the years 1389-1390 from 4 subject areas of humanities, medical sciences, technology and engineering and basic sciences. Instrument for collecting data is a questionnaire including 47 items focusing on indicators used to evaluate research productivity of researchers. The Cronbach coefficient alpha was applied to confirm its variability and coefficient equal to 96 was obtained. In order to confirm its validity, formal validity method was used. Responds to questions and testing research hypotheses was conducted at two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics. At the descriptive statistics level standard deviation, average and frequency, and at the inferential statistics level variance analysis, least significant difference, and Friedman tests were used. The results obtained show that for researchers in humanities, indicators relating to “book” have high importance, while for researchers in basic and medical sciences, indicators relating to “article” have more importance and from the view point of technology and engineering researchers, indicators relating to “innovations” and “research plans” in comparison to other indicators are more creditable at evaluating research productivity of researchers. Keywords: Scientometrics; Accreditation; Researchers; Evaluation Indicators