Faculty publication trends in a Japanese national university: a diachronic document analysis.

IF 1.2 Q4 PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY
Theron Muller, Miho Takano, Nicole Gallagher
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Abstract

Background: We previously demonstrated that in a Japanese national university's medical faculty, overall paper publication frequency increased between 1979-1980 and 2017-2018, while original paper publication did not increase. Further, publication language changed from predominantly Japanese to English. However, whether these trends are specific to medicine or representative of other faculties remains unclear.

Methods: We diachronically analyzed annual university library-produced publication reports for four pharmaceutical and three medical units between 1979-1980 and 2019-2020, elucidating how publication frequency, type, and language medium changed.

Results: All publication types increased for the pharmaceutical faculty, from 2.87 per faculty member per year to 10.77. Publication of original papers more than doubled, from 1.06 per faculty member per year to 2.37. This increase was exclusively in English publication, with no publication of Japanese original papers in 2019-2020. This contrasts with medicine, which, while it demonstrated similar increases in all publication types combined, from 4.92 papers per faculty member per year to 12.78, did not demonstrate as striking an increase in total original paper publication (English and Japanese), from 1.21 papers per faculty member per year to 1.30. However, these two faculties observed similar trends in that English largely replaced Japanese original paper publication. That both faculties' Japanese original paper publication decreased suggests English language original paper publication comes at the expense of publishing in Japanese. Concerning both faculties together, the increase in publishing frequency for all publication types more than tripled from 4.01 to 12.38. This was largely driven by changes in conference paper publication for the pharmaceutical sciences faculty, where English publication increased 2,775% (0.06 to 1.7 papers per faculty member per year) and Japanese language publication 258% (1.33 to 4.77). While conference paper publication did increase for the medical sciences, its change in total publication frequency was largely driven by 'other' types of publication, which increased from 0.51 publications per faculty member per year in 1979-1980 to 5.41 in 2019-2020, largely driven by Japanese language publication.

Conclusion: In 2019-2020, pharmaceutical sciences faculty members largely published original papers in English, so postgraduate education should consider the future likelihood of graduates needing to publish in English.

日本国立大学教师出版趋势:历时性文献分析。
背景:我们之前证明,在日本国立大学的医学院,论文发表的频率在1979年之间有所增加-1980年和2017-2018年,而原始论文发表量没有增加。此外,出版语言从以日语为主转变为英语。然而,这些趋势是医学特有的还是其他学院的代表性的,目前尚不清楚。方法:我们历时性地分析了1979年期间大学图书馆为四个制药和三个医疗单位制作的年度出版报告-1980年和2019-2020年,阐明了出版频率、类型和语言媒介的变化。结果:药学系的所有出版物类型都有所增加,从每位教员每年2.87种增加到10.77种。原创论文的发表量增加了一倍多,从每位教员每年1.06篇增加到2.37篇。这一增长仅发生在英文出版物上,2019-2020年没有发表日文原创论文。这与医学形成了鲜明对比,尽管医学在所有出版类型的总和中都表现出了类似的增长,从每位教员每年4.92篇论文增加到12.78篇,但原始论文出版总量(英语和日语)并没有表现出惊人的增长,从每位教师每年1.21篇文章增加到1.30篇。然而,这两个学院观察到了类似的趋势,即英语在很大程度上取代了日语的原始论文出版。两个学院的日语原创论文出版量都有所下降,这表明英语原创论文出版是以牺牲日语出版为代价的。就这两个学院而言,所有出版类型的出版频率都增加了两倍多,从4.01增加到12.38。这在很大程度上是由制药科学系会议论文发表量的变化推动的,其中英语发表量增加了2775%(每位教员每年0.06至1.7篇论文),日语发表量增长了258%(1.33至4.77篇),其总出版频率的变化在很大程度上是由“其他”类型的出版物推动的,从1979-1980年的每位教员每年0.51份出版物增加到2019-2020年的5.41份,主要是由日语出版物推动的。结论:2019-2020年,药物科学学院的教职员工主要用英语发表原创论文,因此研究生教育应考虑毕业生未来需要用英语发表论文的可能性。
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