Economic Growth and Internet Usage Impact on Publication Productivity Among ASEAN's and World's Best Universities

Modern Applied Science, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 169-178

10 Pages Posted: 12 Sep 2014

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Hossein Gholizadeh

University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Hadi Salehi

Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch

Mohamed Amin Embi

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Faculty of Education

Mahmoud Danaee

University Malaya

Ali Ordi

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - Advance Informatics School (AIS)

Farid Habibi

University of Economic Sciences

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Research and Technology Department, Alzahra University, Vanak, Tehran, Iran, Postcode: 19938 93973; Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM); University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture

Noor Azuan Abu Osman

University of Malaya (UM) - Faculty of Engineering

Date Written: September 1, 2014

Abstract

Measuring the number of papers which are published each year, publication productivity is the factor which shows the reputation of universities and countries. However, the effect of growing economy and using internet on the publication productivity in Asian countries has not been discovered yet. The present research is going to figure out the publication productivity among the elite universities in Asian countries and also ten top universities around the world in the last twenty years (from 1993 to 2012). Furthermore, the current research is aimed to study the relationship among publication, gross domestic product (GDP) and internet usage. It is worth to mention that the publication of the top Ten Malaysian Universities was regarded for the similar period of time. To get the exact numbers of documents like papers, conference articles, review papers and letters which are published by the universities in the last twenty years, the writer of the same paper used the Science Direct database. Moreover, the data for GDP and the number of internet usage was collected through the World Bank database (World Data Bank). To compare all kinds of publications, one-way ANOVA was used and to investigate the impact of economic growth and internet usage on publication productivity, multiple regression analysis was applied. The results showed that the rate of publication growth was 1.9, 20.9, and 65.5% in top universities in the world, ASEAN countries and Malaysia, respectively. The results also showed that there was a positive and significant correlation between GDP and the number of internet users with the number of publications in ASEAN and Malaysian universities. Internet usage had much more influence in comparison with the GDP in predicting the number of publications among these groups except for top ten Malaysian universities from 2003 to 2012. In summary, publication trends in top ten Malaysian and ASEAN universities are promising. However, policy makers and science managers should spend much more percentage of their GDP on Internet facilities and research studies that their outputs lead to more rapid economic growth and internet usage.

Keywords: ASEAN, publication productivity, documents, internet usage, GDP, Malaysian Universities, publication trend

JEL Classification: L11, L1, L2, M11, M12, M1, M54, Q1, O1, O3, P42, P24, P29, Q31, Q32, L17

Suggested Citation

Gholizadeh, Hossein and Salehi, Hadi and Embi, Mohamed Amin and Danaee, Mahmoud and Ordi, Ali and Habibi, Farid and Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Abu Osman, Noor Azuan, Economic Growth and Internet Usage Impact on Publication Productivity Among ASEAN's and World's Best Universities (September 1, 2014). Modern Applied Science, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 169-178, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2495293

Hossein Gholizadeh

University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute ( email )

The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre
505 Smyth Road, Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M2
Canada

Hadi Salehi

Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch ( email )

Iran
Iran
Najafabad, Isfahan
Iran

Mohamed Amin Embi

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Faculty of Education ( email )

Department of Industrial Computing
School of Information Technology -FTSM
Bangi, Selangor 55100
Malaysia
+60 3 89215969 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://www.ukm.my/ppa/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=2:prof-dr-mohamed-amin-embi&catid

Mahmoud Danaee

University Malaya ( email )

Level 14, Wisma R&D, University of Malaya Jalan Pa
KL, RI KL 59990
Malaysia
0060173601650 (Phone)

Ali Ordi

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - Advance Informatics School (AIS) ( email )

UTM Johor Bahru
Johor, 81310
Malaysia

Farid Habibi

University of Economic Sciences ( email )

No. 242 Somayeh St
Tehran
Iran

Nader Ale Ebrahim (Contact Author)

Research and Technology Department, Alzahra University, Vanak, Tehran, Iran, Postcode: 19938 93973 ( email )

Iran

Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM) ( email )

Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan 50603
University of Malaya (UM)
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan 50603
Malaysia

HOME PAGE: http://https://umresearch.um.edu.my/

University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture ( email )

Kuala Lumpur, 50603
Malaysia

Noor Azuan Abu Osman

University of Malaya (UM) - Faculty of Engineering ( email )

Kuala Lumpur, 50603
Malaysia

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