A Study on Relationship between Resources and Performance for Individual Researchers

• Main Authors: Yu-Ching Hung, 洪郁晴
• Other Authors: Jen-Pei Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99920908963113916966

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 農藝學研究所 === 96 === The National Science Council (NSC) is a primary government agency in Taiwan which provides research resources to faculty in the universities for academic research. To investigate whether the investment in research fund by the NCS can uplift the research level of the universities in Taiwan, we examine the relationship between the research resource and research performance in the faculty of universities in Taiwan. Our targeted population is the full-time faculty in the life sciences and related areas at the National Taiwan Universities which consist of those in College of Medicine, College of Bio-resource and Agriculture, College of Life Sciences, and College of Public Health. The data also consists of two parts. The first part is the data on research resource which is the number and amount of research grants awarded to the individual faculty by the NSC during the 5-year period between 2003 and 2007. The second part is the data on research performance which is measured by the research papers published in the Science Citation Indexed (SCI) or Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals between 2003 and 2007 for which the individual faculty is the first or the corresponding author. Data on both research resource and performance were collected from the NSC website during the period from November, 2007 to June 2008. In addition, the faculty at the National Taiwan University can also be classified into three groups: distinguished professor, the faculty exempt from evaluation, and regular faculty. The results indicate that there is a general positive trend between the magnitude of research resource and the research performance. In addition, statistically significant differences were observed among three types of faculty in the following indices (p<0.001): average number of NSC research grants per faculty per year, the amount of NSC research fund per faculty per year, average number of SCI papers per faculty per year; and the average number of the top 15% SCI papers per faculty per year. However, 14.94% of the faculty in life sciences or related area did not have any NSC grants between 2003 and 2007 and 19.63% of the faculty did not published any papers in SCI or SSCI journals as the first or corresponding authors during the same period. In summary, our results demonstrate that research resource is positively related to the research performance. In addition, the abundant research resource by the distinguished professor or faculty exempt from evaluation is also reflected in better research performance than the regular faculty. Key Words: Endowed faculty, Faculty exempt from evaluation, SSCI, SSCI