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An open database of productivity in Vietnam's social sciences and humanities for public use.

ABSTRACT: This study presents a description of an open database on scientific output of Vietnamese researchers in social sciences and humanities, one that corrects for the shortcomings in current research publication databases such as data duplication, slow update, and a substantial cost of doing science. Here, using scientists' self-reports, open online sources and cross-checking with Scopus database, we introduce a manual system and its semi-automated version of the database on the profiles of 657 Vietnamese researchers in social sciences and humanities who have published in Scopus-indexed journals from 2008 to 2018. The final system also records 973 foreign co-authors, 1,289 papers, and 789 affiliations. The data collection method, highly applicable for other sources, could be replicated in other developing countries while its content be used in cross-section, multivariate, and network data analyses. The open database is expected to help Vietnam revamp its research capacity and meet the public demand for greater transparency in science management.

SUBMITTER: Vuong QH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6154282 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An open database of productivity in Vietnam's social sciences and humanities for public use.

Vuong Quan-Hoang QH La Viet-Phuong VP Vuong Thu-Trang TT Ho Manh-Toan MT Nguyen Hong-Kong T HT Nguyen Viet-Ha VH Pham Hiep-Hung HH Ho Manh-Tung MT

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This study presents a description of an open database on scientific output of Vietnamese researchers in social sciences and humanities, one that corrects for the shortcomings in current research publication databases such as data duplication, slow update, and a substantial cost of doing science. Here, using scientists' self-reports, open online sources and cross-checking with Scopus database, we introduce a manual system and its semi-automated version of the database on the profiles of 657 Vietn ...[more]

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Project description:BACKGROUND:Previous research has not provided enough direction regarding effective content design of courses integrating the humanities and social sciences in medical and dental education. This study aims at exploring how an Integrated Medical/Dental Humanities-Social Medicine/Dentistry course may be designed; how effective it may be in terms of student growth in knowledge, attitudes, skills, and aspirations; and associated factors. METHODS:The course was designed by distilling commonalities in the international standards for medical/dental education proposed by seven major health organizations. This analysis resulted in a curriculum covering nine major topics: history, professionalism, communication, ethics, management, policy, insurance, law, and research methodology. During the 2017 calendar year, data was collected and statistically analyzed from 68 third-year pre-doctoral students enrolled in the resulting MDHS 13-week course. RESULTS:Participants showed growth in skills, aspirations, knowledge, and attitudes, with the greatest change occurring in skills, then aspirations, knowledge, and attitudes. Knowledge growth was the only variable significantly related to student achievement of course objectives (??=?0.635, t (63)?=?3.394, p?=?0.001). The topics that students perceived as most critical were insurance, policy, management, and law. The perceived importance of research was most common among participants and was significantly related to all learning outcomes (For knowledge, ??=?0.213, t (63)?=?2.203, p?=?0.031; for attitudes, ??=?0.784, t (63)?=?10.257, p?=?0.000; for skills, ??=?0.769, t (63)?=?9.772, p?=?0.000; and aspirations ??=?0.639, t (63)?=?7.595, p?=?0.000). CONCLUSIONS:This study proposed a framework for humanities-social sciences education in health sciences education and analyzed its implementation. The empirical evaluation of its effectiveness and factors related to successful outcomes found that students perceived gains in their knowledge, attitudes, skills, and aspirations for humanistic and social aspects of dentistry/medicine. In addition, their recognition of the importance of research was associated with the greatest growth in all four learning outcomes. This study may contribute to the improved design of integrated humanities-social sciences courses.

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An open database of productivity in Vietnam's social sciences and humanities for public use.

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An open database of productivity in Vietnam's social sciences and humanities for public use.

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