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ABSTRACT
Taiwan, an emerging scientific powerhouse, has systematically upgraded its knowledge production and international academic collaboration . It is imperative to understand such new developments. In addition, according to extant theoretical and empirical perspectives, disciplinary areas and faculty members’ characteristics are also critical factors influencing the behaviours of knowledge production and international collaboration. Under this broader context, this research aims to decipher the progress of knowledge production and international co-authorship at the national level. This study will explore three wider disciplinary areas to examine the academic production and international co-authorship in relation to faculty characteristics/factors, including faculty rank, mobility experience, and gender (using data from 2008 to 2018). Our findings indicate that knowledge production and international collaboration have declined in Taiwan since 2013, with lower output seen in recent years. Performance in different disciplinary areas is detectable within the data. In addition, academic rank offers more explanatory power in determining publication behaviour than mobility experiences and gender. Research indicates that young faculty members seem to bear a greater burden of knowledge production and international collaboration than senior professors. Mobility experiences and gender are not influential in terms of knowledge production. These results bring substantial implications to the Taiwanese academic system.
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Sheng-Ju Chan
Sheng-Ju Chan, Distinguished Professor of Graduate Institute of Education at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan He is the President of Chinese Taipei Comparative Education Society. His areas of special interest are higher education policy, comparative education and higher education management. He has published widely in higher education and international development education.
Chia-Yu Yang
Chia-Yu Yang is Assistant Research Fellow of Office of Institutional Research at National Chung Cheng University. Her research interests include higher education governance, institutional research, education policy and administration. She is responsible for plan and execution of institutional research and also dedicates her study to data governance of university most recently.
Hung-Chun Tai
Hung-Chun Tai is a Ph.D. student at National Chung Cheng University. His research interests include higher education governance, education policy, and administration.