• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
• /
• 제10권3호
• /
• pp.68-82
• /
• 2022

This study aims to determine the awareness and perceptions of Korean researchers regarding mandatory open access (OA) and OA publishing of publicly-funded research papers. In July 2019, Korean researchers who had published in Science Citation Index Expanded journals as first authors and corresponding authors participated in an online survey distributed via e-mail. A total of 1,172 valid responses were collected and analyzed using SPSS 18. The results indicated that the level of awareness of OA differed significantly based on occupation and research experience (p<0.001). Although 52.56% of the respondents had experienced OA publishing, only 22.35% had self-archiving experience. Regardless of the amount of publishing cost support, researchers showed a high level of willingness to publish OA articles. Yet, since the importance of impact factor was evaluated to be very high, at present OA publication might have a limited role as a publication platform.

• International Journal of Contents
• /
• 제6권3호
• /
• pp.10-14
• /
• 2010

Researchers in Korea and elsewhere have carried out a wide variety of important research activities in their respective fields, producing valuable research results. For such diverse research results to be shared and exchanged among researchers working in the same discipline and research subject there needs to be a community environment based on free utilization of information. Against this backdrop, this study seeks to classify and reprocess the reference/factual content owned by the KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), a state-run distributor of information on science and technology, by the different research subjects. It also seeks to develop and provide a community model based on the concepts of open archiving and open access for the researchers specialized in the related fields of research. This community model is developed focusing on the research results from the field of bioscience, where the most extensive studies are currently being conducted. To develop the community model, this study: (a) surveys the current status of the content owned by KISTI; (b) analyzes the patterns and characteristics of biological scientific content among the KISTI-owned content; and (c) designs a web platform where researchers can freely upload/download research results.

• STI Policy Review
• /
• 제4권2호
• /
• pp.113-135
• /
• 2013

This paper explores how research excellence is perceived among researchers in Thailand and Japan with an aim to explore whether there are any new indicators that could later be proposed and adopted as criteria of excellence. Based on a questionnaire survey, the findings reflect ideas and viewpoints that could be found among researchers in both countries. Creative researchers are crucial to a strong national research and innovation system. Institutions should provide an environment or incentives based on research performance for their researchers to flourish and be productive. For decades, bibliometrics have been used to evaluate individual research performance for its easy approach and faster speed than a qualitative assessment would warrant. Nonetheless, there have been a number of studies on research performance evaluating systems that point out how a purely bibliometric approach is inadequate in summarizing the quality of the scientific performance. The pressures on researchers today influence their thinking and oppose their creativity. To investigate the perception of research excellence, three key research questions were set in this study: what counts as excellence, how to measure excellence, and how to support excellence. The findings confirm that traditional granting criteria that frames an idea of excellence remain valid, but they also suggest novel criteria be considered and prioritized. This paper argues that the existing evaluating system is insufficient for unleashing the curiosity and creativity of researchers and fostering excellence. In the final section, the paper discusses factors that contribute to scientific creativity that we should not overlook.

• STI Policy Review
• /
• 제6권2호
• /
• pp.1-23
• /
• 2015

This study aims to contribute to the debate over the age-productivity relationships in scientific and technological research. For this purpose, we conducted an empirical experiment employing a time-series cross-section dataset derived from the KRI of the NRF containing data on individual researchers of fifty major universities in Korea covering the period of 2008-2013. This study has found that: (1) there exists an inverse U-shaped age-productivity relationship at the level of individual researchers; (2) the impact of the average age of a research group on the productivity of individual researchers varies across fields; (3) male and female researchers move along different age-productivity curves; and (4) the inverse U-shaped age-productivity relationship also holds at the level of organizations. The results suggest that the aging of researchers in Korea will soon reach the stage where serious losses in research productivity become a reality. Yet, it is not so clear whether the observed decline in the performance of older researchers is due to declining cognitive capability, which is an unavoidable result of aging, or to declining motivation, which results from an institutional system that discourages older researchers' research activities (such as reduced access to research opportunities or mandatory retirement). What is clear is that it is inevitable for the Korean science system to change the current seniority- and age-based organizational system into one of higher adaptability.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
• /
• 제9권2호
• /
• pp.83-98
• /
• 2021

Research collaboration is an important strategy to improve research output, and virtual academic communities (VACs) have become an important platform to collaborate on. This paper reveals the influencing factors of researchers' collaboration intention in VACs from two attributes: individual, and inter-members. On the basis of the Social Cognitive Theory, Social Exchange Theory, social network theory, and Five-Factor Model, this paper constructed a model demonstrating the influencing factors of VACs researchers' collaboration intention. A self-administered questionnaire was employed on members of four VACs in China to collect data; subsequently, 558 usable responses were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The result showed that openness, conscientiousness, reciprocity, trust, and the social network characteristic had a significant influence on the collaboration intention of researchers in VACs, while self-efficacy, agreeableness, extroversion, neuroticism, and experience had no significant effects on the collaboration intention of researchers in VACs. This model plays a positive role in promoting the research collaboration intention of Chinese VACs researchers and in guiding the construction of VAC platforms.

• 대한산업공학회지
• /
• 제5권2호
• /
• pp.57-69
• /
• 1979

This review focuses on the individual performance and productivity of researchers in the area of science and technology. The researchers in the paper are classified into individual inventors without organizational affiliation and researchers in the organization, which are distinguished by cosmopolitanic professionals and local institutionalists. The productivity of researchers is in general measured by different indicators or measurement scales such as: i) subjective evaluation of overall research performance, (ii) the number of published papers, reports and books, iii) the quality of research output (e.g. citation frequency), iv) originality of research ouput (e,g, patents), v) multiple measurement scales, etc. According to the literature based on empirical study, the productivity of individual reseachers is positively related to the degree of freedom, communication, diversity, dedication, and motivation and negatively related to the degree of similarity, and satisfaction. However, other factors such as creativity, age, supervisory behavior and group characteristics have shown irregular direction of correlation.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
• /
• 제22권3호
• /
• pp.45-52
• /
• 2022

To make the research and development in IoT networks witness a significant improvement and last for a long period, it is always important to attract new researchers to work on this area and be a part of it. The best way to attract researchers to work in any research area and have their interest is to give them a clear background and roadmap about it. In this way, researchers can easily find a deep point to start their research based on their interest. This paper presents an overview and roadmap about IoT technologies from the most five vital aspects: IoT architecture, communication technologies, type of IoT applications, IoT applications protocols and IoT challenges.

• 정보관리학회지
• /
• 제25권2호
• /
• pp.127-141
• /
• 2008

본 연구에서는 질문지법을 이용하여 과학기술분야 연구자들의 정보요구와 탐색 행태를 분석하였다. 분석결과, 연구자들은 주로 연구개발의 업무, 보고서 작성 등치 업무에서 정보를 필요로 하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 연구의 아이디어를 알아내는 방법으로는 주로 문헌을 활용하고, 연구자간 커뮤니케이션도 빈번하게 활용하고 있었다. 또한 그들이 가장 많이 활용하는 정보원으로는 디지털 도서관, 웹 검색 엔진, 학술정보포털 등으로 응답하여 온라인을 통한 정보 요구가 높은 것으로 알 수 있었다. 이러한 이용자 요구 조사 결과를 토대로 이용자 중심의 과학기술정보서비스를 개발할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• STI Policy Review
• /
• 제8권1호
• /
• pp.41-61
• /
• 2017

The literature in research policy extensively addresses the interaction between public R&D and the society. Scholars have paid particular attention to the way science and technology are diffused into the society and industry with the aim of substantiating their potential value. In practice, having recognized the importance of the said interaction, R&D entities and governmental organizations promote scientific and technological innovations that result from their R&D activities. Yet, the nature of news media exposure as their primary channel to promote R&D outcomes has been remarkably understudied. Using the results of R&D projects supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), this study examines R&D entities' strategic use of the news media to publicize their outcomes. The empirical results suggest that the scale of an R&D project positively affects the counts of media exposure of its R&D outcomes, whereas the level of technology readiness and the technology life-cycle do not have significant influence. In addition, the results suggest that, compared to senior researchers, young researchers are more likely to publicize their R&D outcomes and that R&D outcomes from highly ranked universities are more likely to be publicized than those from lower-ranking universities despite our control for R&D outcomes. The aforementioned results suggest that in promoting the diffusion of science and technology, especially to the public, policymakers should be concerned about incentives for those who provide techno-scientific information, such as researchers. The social need for the diffusion of techno-scientific information into the public (e.g., technology transfer and diffusion) is an insignificant factor in determining the media exposure of such information, whereas personal benefits and sensitive issues related to a researcher's own R&D activities (e.g., justification for R&D activities) drive researchers to publicize their R&D outcomes. This paper suggests that policymakers, especially those concerned with better diffusion of scientific and technological innovations need to design a proper incentive system to maximize the societal benefits of media exposure.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
• /
• 제17권12호
• /
• pp.537-544
• /
• 2017

국내뿐만 아니라 전 세계적으로 과학기술정보 데이터는 꾸준하게 증가하고 있다. 분야에 관계없이 하루에도 많은 양의 문헌이 만들어지고 배포되는 현 시점에서 연구자들이 이러한 문헌 정보를 효과적으로 사용하여 가치 있고 인간 생활에 유용한 연구 활동을 지원하기 위한 요구가 늘어나고 있다. 과거에는 연구자가 필요한 정보를 검색하는 수준에서 벗어나 이제는 데이터와 데이터를 연결시키고 활용 가능한 고부가가치 정보를 찾아내어 연구자에게 제시하는 서비스로 점점 변화하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 국내외의 과학기술정보 데이터 중에서 한국인 연구자가 작성한 문헌 데이터를 분석하여 활용 사례를 알아보고, 연구자들을 위한 서비스에 도움을 주는 정보를 제시하고자 한다.