- Title
- Tracking academic regional workforce retention through author affiliation data
- Creator
- Kitt, Sharon
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/37993
- Identifier
- vital:5871
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783200031357
- Abstract
- Academic mobility is considered a standard requirement for the development and progression of an academic research career. However, this career mobility is at odds with the drive to recruit and retain professionally-qualified workers in regional Australia, to ensure future generations of regional Australians have capacity to access higher education in their home region. To date, little work has been completed regarding the retention of active research staff in regional Australia. The purpose of this paper is twofold: to determine the viability of using author affiliation data as listed on publications to track an institutional cohort of authors by their affiliation; also, to determine if data analysed using this method revealed any insights regarding the retention of academic staff. Whilst using author affiliation data was found to be viable, it required extensive data manipulation and cleansing. Once analysed, the data revealed intriguing insights into the retention and movement of active academic researchers. Implications for regional higher education will be discussed.
- Publisher
- Vienna, Austria Austrian Institut of Technology
- Relation
- Proceedings of ISSI 2013 - 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference Vol. 2, p. 1746-1758
- Rights
- © AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Vienna 2013.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Academic research; Academic staff; Career mobilities; Data manipulations; Future generations; Higher education; Standard requirements; Workforce retention; Education; Research; Digital storage
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