Aineiston nimi

Dynamics and Productivity of Research Activity in Universities 1990

Aineistonumero

FSD1089

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1089
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd1089

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Kaukonen, Erkki (University of Tampere. Research Institute for Social Sciences)
• Luukkonen, Terttu (Academy of Finland)
• Stolte-Heiskanen, Veronica (University of Tampere. Department of Sosiology and Social Psychology)

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey contains interviews of researchers in six Finnish institutes of higher learning. The main themes pertained to the organisation of the departments' research activities, internationality, scientific communication, scientific publication, utilisation of the findings, and evaluation of university research. The aim of the study was to develop qualitative evaluation methods for scientific research, and find out the significance of resources to the functioning of the departments and the consequences of assessment methods. The researchers were asked how their working time was divided between research, teaching, administration, and other tasks. Relating to professional identity, they were asked about their motivation for choosing a scientific career, along with factors connected to work and working conditions. Scientific communication was studied by asking how the respondents stay in contact with foreign colleagues, what eventual obstacles there are to international contacts, and which countries are the most essential in view of the researchers' own research area. Relating to publishing of the results, the respondents were asked whether their most recent research report was a joint publication or a single author publication, who chose the publication channel, and why was that particular publication channel chosen.

One topic covered research performance assessment and assessment criteria. The respondents were asked what were the most important factors to be taken into account when assessing research performance. The researchers were also asked whether the evaluation criteria used in performance assessment in their field of study were acceptable, and if not, what changes were needed. The scientific activity of the researchers was studied by asking the position of the researchers' main project in the field of science, the duration of the project, size and composition of the research group, and the researchers' other research projects. The researchers were asked to assess their own research, the current situation in their own field of research, and the applicability of their research projects. Other research projects pertaining to the same research area in Finland and abroad, and eventual contacts of the respondents' projects with these were charted. The respondents were also asked to assess their own research in comparison to other research groups and to say what kind of research they felt was high quality research, and with what indicators should scientific successfulness be measured. The survey also contains information on the researchers' scientific output during the past three years.

Background variables included the respondent's position in the department, age, sex, degrees taken, and experience in research activities.

Asiasanat

bibliometric analysis; evaluation; peer reviews; performance indicators; research; scientific cooperation; scientific personnel

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Natural sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Engineering and technology (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Medical and health sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Biotechnology (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Educational policy (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Social welfare policy (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (A) openly available for all users without registration (CC BY 4.0).

Kerääjät

• Kaukonen, Erkki (University of Tampere. Research Institute for Social Sciences)
• Luukkonen, Terttu (Academy of Finland)
• Stolte-Heiskanen, Veronica (University of Tampere. Department of Sosiology and Social Psychology)

Ajallinen kattavuus

1989 – 1990

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

1989 – 1990

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Researchers at six Finnish universities

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Non-probability: Purposive

Six university departments from the two biggest universities and two universities of technology were chosen for the sample. The aim was to choose the departments so that they would represent different fields of research and academic institutions. Two departments represent natural sciences (zoology and biomedicine), two represent technical sciences (automation technology and automatic control engineering), one department represents exact sciences (mathematics and statistics), one stands for social sciences (social policy).

Keruumenetelmä

Face-to-face interview

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Semi-structured questionnaire

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

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Havaintojen ja muuttujien lukumäärä

228 muuttujaa ja 217 havaintoa.

Datan versio

3.0

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Kaukonen, Erkki (University of Tampere) & Luukkonen, Terttu (Academy of Finland) & Stolte-Heiskanen, Veronica (University of Tampere): Dynamics and Productivity of Research Activity in Universities 1990 [dataset]. Version 3.0 (2024-07-05). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1089

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

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Varaumat

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Julkaisut aineistosta

Stolte-Heiskanen, Veronica (1992). Research performance evaluation in the higher education sector: a grass-roots perspective. Higher education management, 4(2), 179-193.

Luukkonen, Terttu (1992). Is scientists' publishing behaviour reward-seeking?. Scientometrics, 24(2), 297-319.

Kaukonen, Erkki (1993). Tieteen moninaisuus ja arvioinnin ongelmat. Korkeakoulutieto 20(1), 16-23.