Personal and Academic Determinants of Research Productivity for Researchers Ranked in Stanford University's Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide.

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Hanan Hamoud M. Alharbi, Taibah University

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Alharbi, Hanan Hamoud M. Personal and Academic Determinants of Research Productivity for Researchers Ranked in Stanford University’s Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-05-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/E231102V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary The shift toward a post-capitalist, knowledge-based economy has created an increasingly competitive academic environment, where the success of faculty members relies on their research productivity. This study aimed to identify the key factors that determine the research productivity of researchers ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide, according to Stanford University, who are working at Saudi universities. The study employed multiple linear regression on a sample of 441 researchers. The impact of 13 independent variables on the h-index, used as the dependent variable, was tested. The multiple linear regression model explained 48% of the variance in the research productivity of the researchers, meeting both statistical and logical criteria. The model indicated that seven variables are determinants of research productivity, ranked in descending order of their effect as follows: administrative work hours (negative impact), reading and writing hours, type of university, academic programs offered by the department, the university where the degree was obtained, English language proficiency, and research field (specialization). The study also highlighted the existence of other important factors that were not significant determinants, such as gender, nationality, experience, and academic rank.



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