THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES School for Graduate Studies and Research STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY
o Determining the suitability of the journal for assessment and promotion o Recognition and avoidance of predatory journals
Responding to journal editors’ comments
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• Conducting seminars/discussion fora which focus on: o Exploring creative financing opportunities, including financing research activities, the cost of publishing, and publication training o Promoting multi-author publishing o Promoting familiarity with The UWI’s Research Policies, e.g. The UWI Policy and Procedures on Research Ethics, which provides guidance on the attribution of authorship and copyright ownership, disputes, the ethical treatment of data, and ethical research practices, inter alia o Exploring the suitability of regional journals for publication and for assessment and promotion. A recent example of a writing and publication initiative is the Author Fellowship Programme hosted by the Office of Research, Innovation and Community at Cave Hill (RICCH). The Programme aimed to increase the confidence, capacity and willingness of research students and faculty to publish in peer-reviewed academic journals, with the goal of guiding participants to successful submission of research for publication. Strategies To Support Academic Visibility Publishing in a high-quality journal itself contributes to academic visibility, but a good publishing strategy can further increase the findability, accessibility and visibility of research outputs. Researchers can benefit from receiving training and guidance on: • Findability: This includes selecting the right titles and keywords for your work and the right journal/publisher . Creating your online academic identity requires many elements, both private and academic. These range from employee pages such as UWI Scholar, to academic profiles established via social media such as Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia.edu and LinkedIn. These profiles should be continuously updated to reflect new publications. • Additional strategies to enhance visibility include: o The use of unique author identifiers such as ORCID to distinguish a researcher’s work from that of other researchers Strategies To Promote A Research Culture Research culture encompasses the behaviours, values, expectations, attitudes and norms of a research community. It influences researchers’ career paths and determines the way that research is conducted and communicated. Research culture embodies integrity, diversity, career paths, reward and recognition, open science and the ethos of collaboration 2 . Several aspects of what constitutes the framework for a research culture are embedded in The UWI’s research policies, perhaps particularly The UWI Policy and Procedures on Research Ethics and The UWI Intellectual Property Management and Commercialisation Policy . However, it is awareness of these and actioning one’s behaviour to reflect them, that allows a research culture to take root. Undertaking strategies towards nourishing and promoting the research culture at The UWI will facilitate its growth and produce the institutional rewards that flow from this. Proposed Strategies to Promote Research Culture at The UWI could include: • Promoting activities and strategies to foster a working environment that supports and rewards: o Positive research culture o Alignment with the Faculty’s core research values o Research integrity o Creation and maintenance of up-to-date online profiles, or a Web CV o Engagement with the academic community through blogging and tweeting.
2 The Royal Society. (2022). Research Culture | Royal Society [Education]. The Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/topics- policy/projects/research-culture/
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