Golpar Mehrabi; abbas abbaspour; Ali Delavar; Ali Khorsandi Taskooh
Volume 16, Issue 56 , April 2022, , Pages 5-21
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Identifying the factors contributing to quality of academic research in humanities and social sciencesAbstract, identifying the factors contributing to quality of academic research, especially in humanities and social sciences, deserves special attention. Given differences in research quality criteria ...
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Identifying the factors contributing to quality of academic research in humanities and social sciencesAbstract, identifying the factors contributing to quality of academic research, especially in humanities and social sciences, deserves special attention. Given differences in research quality criteria in different fields, the present study adopted the methods of systematic literature review and thematic analysis to identify the dominant values and themes relevant to research quality in humanities and social sciences. Within the systematic literature review, all the related researchers were retrieved from international and national databases and then filtered. The criteria and themes influencing research quality were extracted from a select number of related researches. The extracted criteria were coded in three stages. This yielded three categories, namely inclusive themes, organizing themes, and basic themes. The themes were validated through consultation with the experts in humanities and social sciences. According to the results, inclusive themes included the research infrastructure, organizational climate, accurate scientific plan, scientific desirability, research productivity, scientific influence and authority, innovative visualization. The results are expected to help researchers conduct quality research. Moreover, the findings can help enhance academic research management systems in their accurate evaluation of researches, particularly in humanities and social sciences.Keywords: academic research quality, humanities and social sciences, systematic literature review, thematic analysis
Azam Rahimzadeh Kalaleh; Saeed Ghiasi Nodooshan; Hamid Rahimian; Ali Khorsandi Taskouh; Fazlollah Ahmadi
Volume 15, Issue 54 , October 2021, , Pages 5-18
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Medical universities as suppliers of health system human resources need effective leaders to promote medical education status in the country. The present study is an attempt to review the literature on academic leadership and to identify research gaps related to this issue in medical universities. This ...
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Medical universities as suppliers of health system human resources need effective leaders to promote medical education status in the country. The present study is an attempt to review the literature on academic leadership and to identify research gaps related to this issue in medical universities. This systematized review was conducted by searching databases of ERIC, Pubmed, SID, Scopus, Web of Science, Emerald Proquest, and Google Scholar by appropriate keywords selected from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) documents related to academic leadership that were published between 2009- 2020. The retrieved articles were reviewed (n=505), and after deletion of duplicates, and according to the research inclusion and exclusion criteria 20 articles were reviewed. The quality of selected documents was appraised by MERSQI. Reviewing the selected studies indicated that the leadership studies are mostly conducted in Humanities universities. The studies on academic leadership in medical universities are mostly dealt with the relationship of characteristics of academic leaders and leadership styles. In medical universities, most of the managers who are physicians has not attended management and leadership programs and believe that they do not need to attend these programs. According to the findings of this study, only one research studied challenges and requirements of effective academic leadership in the country. Therefore, conducting qualitative studies on leadership in universities of medical sciences that provide an opportunity for deep study of experiences, beliefs and attitudes of academic leaders deem necessary.
