Introduction Productivity measurement has become a major issue for university leaders. Federal and state governments support teaching and research with significant investments. When university leaders are seeking new funding, it is not uncommon that they need to justify their request with productivity measurement metrics and equally important research output consumption metrics. However, it is ...

It was a corpus-based research and aimed to explore disciplinary variations (in the use of phrasal features) in academic writing (AW) produced by L2 writers English across disciplines. Corpus this (comprising 80 dissertations written Pakistani doctoral level candidates from two disciplines i.e. Arts Humanities Life Sciences) analyzed through AntConc after tagging POS MAT Taggers. The results re...

Dissertations conducted in the fields of social sciences and humanities should provide researchers decision makers with solutions to problems academia contribute enhancing society's economic welfare. The number scientific publications extracted from dissertations citations on them is one way determine how much academia, society, quality doctoral education. Systematic review bibliometric analysi...

OBJECTIVE To identify the academic scientific production on palliative care in master dissertations and PhD theses carried out by nurses in Portugal. METHOD A descriptive retrospective study of bibliometric type with search for the abstracts available in repositories of higher education institutions in the period 2000-2014. RESULTS Of the 1814 papers identified, 249 met the inclusion criter...

OBJECTIVE In order to acquire the academic title "doctor" in Germany, it is essential to complete a dissertation. A high number of publications at German universities are based on medical dissertations. The reasons why some dissertations are successfully accomplished and why some are not completed - despite far-reaching consequences - have been barely investigated to date. METHODS 467 student...

Abstract The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is an instrument for integrating the environmental issue into strategic planning with increasing emphasis on impact assessment research in world. Although it not mandatory Brazil, there are applications and initiatives its formalization. objective to explore Brazilian academic SEA through quantitative qualitative analysis of papers, theses, ...