@article{a9d0e730d1a7450c8faa8d9a641cdc68,
title = "A scientometric analysis of the effectiveness of Taiwan's educational research projects",
abstract = "The seeking of evidence for revealing the research performance of Education in Taiwan, in response to the stimulus by the national research projects, is presented and interpreted. More than 70,000 publication records over the years 1990-2011 from Web of Science were downloaded and analyzed. The overview analysis by data aggregation and country ranking shows that Taiwan has significantly improved its publication productivity and citation impact over the last decade. The drill-down analysis based on journal bibliographic coupling, information visualization, and diversity and trend indexes, reveals that e-Learning and Science Education are two fast growing subfields that attract global interests and that Taiwan is among the top-ranked countries in these two fields in terms of research productivity. Implications of the analysis are discussed with an emphasis on the subfield characteristics from which more insightful interpretations can be obtained, such as the regional or cultural characteristics that may affect the performance ranking.",
keywords = "Educational research, Journal clustering, Performance ranking, Research evaluation, Subfield identification",
author = "Tseng, {Yuen Hsien} and Chang, {Chun Yen} and Tutwiler, {M. Shane} and Lin, {Ming Chao} and Barufaldi, {James P.}",
note = "Funding Information: There exist other causes to stimulate publishing in WoS journals in Taiwan, i.e., the personal evaluation based on WoS journal publications implemented in recent decade. This evaluation is required for personal promotion or project funding by National Science Council, and is implemented across all disciplines in Taiwan. Therefore, all disciplines should improve their international visibility and possibly paper impact. However, very few have the case of the education discipline among the Social Sciences in Taiwan that improves so much based on our previous analysis (Tseng and Chang 2010) (or by consulting the country ranking for each discipline http://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php). Together with the existing infrastructure, educational researchers{\textquoteright} endeavors, and the incentives of the specific national projects related to Education, the educational discipline in Taiwan has greatly improved their international visibility and citation impact. Funding Information: Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and helpful suggestions. This work is supported in part by the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Aim for the Top University Project{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC. This work is also supported in part by the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan under the grant NSC 100-2511-S-003-053-MY2.",
year = "2013",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1007/s11192-013-0966-z",
language = "English",
volume = "95",
pages = "1141--1166",
journal = "Scientometrics",
issn = "0138-9130",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "3",
}