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Quality of publication output of scientific fields in Slovakia: an international comparison
Jurajda, Štěpán ; Kozubek, Stanislav ; Münich, Daniel ; Škoda, Samuel
This study covers in detail the publication output in scientific journals in Slovakia, based on articles published in the years 2010 – 2014 and included in the Web of Science (WoS) database and compares it with the output of 11 different countries. For our comparison, we have used the narrowly defined scientific fields used by the WoS to categorize the journals included in the database. The study compares both total publication output and outstanding publication output, i.e. the number of articles published in top scientific journals in the given field, based on their reputation in the academia.
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A national comparison of the academic publication output of the Czech Academy of Sciences: quantity vs quality and co-authorship
Jurajda, Štěpán ; Kozubek, Stanislav ; Münich, Daniel ; Škoda, Samuel
This study maps out in detail the contribution made by the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) to the publication output of the Czech Republic for journals listed in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The comparison covers not only the share of the total publication output, but also the share of the excellent publication output, i.e., publications in top-tier journals of respective fields enjoying the most academic prestige. A comparative look at the period 2010-2014 shows that in the vast majority of scientific fields with representation from the CAS scientific teams, the CAS is significantly more focused on publishing in the most prestigious international journals of the WoS database than are others in the Czech Republic. Research cooperation by the CAS in the form of co-authorship takes place at the national level in various fields with differing levels of intensity, as well as differing in the qualitative focus of such cooperation. The sources for this study include the unique bibliometric data processed during the 2015 exercise, the ‘R&D Evaluation of CAS units for 2010-2014’.\n\n
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Czech research centres' publication performance in the period 2009-2013, by field of research
Jurajda, Štěpán ; Kozubek, Stanislav ; Münich, Daniel ; Škoda, Samuel
Evaluating Czech research institutions is largely reduced to automatized scoring of R&D otputs. The sole exception is the practice of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The results of the government’s evaluation of research centres, in the form in which they are processed and officially presented to the public, have little informational value for the management of the R&D system and individual research workplaces. At the same time, the system (of data collection about the R&D results, verification and basic classification) offers several unused possibilities, to convey valuable information about the quantity and the quality of research workplaces' publication performance both to the academic community and to the broader public. Our overview exploits these possibilities for results published in journals listed in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The presented comparison is an update of the IDEA study (2015), the publication performance comparison of Czech research centres, mainly of universities and institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in the period of 2009-2013. The underlying logic of the updated comparison, its advantages, disadvantages, limitations and shortcomings remain more or less the same as before, therefore we refer the reader to the detailed explanations in the aforementioned study. The main change from the previous comparison (besides shifting the five-year window by one year) is the usage of an alternative citation index: while our previous comparison differentiated results from journals by the Impact Factor index, the updated comparison uses the Article Influence Score, which weighs citations according to their importance.
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An international comparison of the quality of academic publication output in the Czech Republic
Jurajda, Štěpán ; Kozubek, Stanislav ; Münich, Daniel ; Škoda, Samuel
In our recent study (IDEA No. 5/20154) we have compared the publication output of various Czech research institutions by individual disciplines. The comparison was based on the relative output of institutions working in specific science branches within the Czech Republic, and had no way of indicating which institutions in the Czech Republic were on par with international research and which were lagging behind. Even though an institution is not at the top in its field within the Czech Republic, the quality of its research may still be on par with international research, as the particular branch of science is highly advanced in the Czech Republic. Therefore, this study is a first step toward comparing the research output of Czech institutions on an international level. We have compared the publication output of entire scientific fields in the Czech Republic to the same fields in other countries, basing our comparison on articles published in the years 2010–2014 and included in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The comparison includes eleven small and medium-sized countries, only one of which has English as its official language: five European countries belonging to the so-called former Soviet bloc, four Western European countries, and two non-European countries.
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Gender in banking and mortgage behavior
Jurajda, Štěpán ; Janhuba, R.
Compared to men, women, even Önancial professionals, exhibit higher risk aversion. We exploit random assignment of clients to banking advisors (ëprivate bankersí) in a large Czech bank to study the e§ects of advisor gender on the probability of mortgage issuance and on the probability that a newly issued mortgage is insured, which we interpret as corresponding to risk averse mortgage behavior. Male advisors do not substantially a§ect the chances that their clients will take a new mortgage, but the mortgages that they issue are dramatically less likely to be insured, particularly so for female clients who never had an insured loan with the bank.
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An international comparison of the quality of academic publication output in the Czech Republic
Jurajda, Štěpán ; Kozubek, Stanislav ; Münich, Daniel ; Škoda, Samuel
In the recent study Jurajda a Münich (2015) we presented a field-by-field comparison of Czech research publication output. This comparison of the relative strength of output by research institutes in each field within the Czech Republic (CR), could not comment on which Czech institutes are working at international level, and which lag behind their foreign counterparts. It is possible, for example, that an institute that is not at the forefront of its field in the CR may nevertheless be performing research at a standard comparable with international competitors, because it is working in a field in which the Czech Republic is performing very high level research. In this study we offer a first step towards comparing the research output of Czech institutes on an international scale: we compare the publication output of each research field, overall, in the Czech Republic with its international equivalent. Our comparison is based on articles published between 2010 and 2014 which are included in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The comparison includes eleven small and medium sized countries, only one of which has English as its native language. Five of the countries are European countries previously within the Soviet bloc, four are Western European countries and two are non-European countries.
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Czech research centres' publication performance in the period 2008-2012, by field of research
Jurajda, Štěpán ; Münich, Daniel
Three years ago, we were the first in the Czech Republic to offer, in IDEA study 3/2012, a comparison of research publication performance (not productivity) based on data about the results of research and development in the period 2006-2010 for the research fields whose ouputs are largely recorded in the Web of Science database run by Thomson Reuters (WoS). For each field of research, we showed which Czech centre has the most results published in journals with a high impact factor (IF). In this study, we bring that comparison up to date for the period 2008-2012. This type of comparison, which is based on the Information Register of R&D Results [Rejstřík informací o výsledcích] (RIV) collated by the government's Council for Research, Development and Innovation (RVVI), identifies the research centres with the most prolific output of excellent results in a given field in the Czech Republic. It also enables us to compare fields in terms of the concentration of their journal publication output in individual research centres, and to look at the relationship between "points-based" RIV assessment and excellence of results.
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Will you qualify for a pension?
Jurajda, Štěpán ; Šatava, Jiří
There is a chance that a part of the Czech population will not meet the basic prerequisite for being granted an old-age pension: 35 years of social security payments. Very likely, many social security payers are not aware of this threat, and have therefore not taken the option to secure their old-age pension through voluntary social security payments, or by extended participation on the labor market. This study tries to draw attention to this issue. Through simplified model simulation, we have shown that the group of people in danger of not receiving pension is non-negligible, and potentially includes tens of thousands of people. However, only a few thousand payers have opted for voluntary social security payments. Based on the data available to them, the Czech Social Security Administration should evaluate the scope of this issue and keep the payers informed, in a timely and regular manner, whether they actually qualify for an old-age pension.
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