I would like to acknowledge and thank Prof Tuan V.Nguyen for his outstanding insights and suggest... more I would like to acknowledge and thank Prof Tuan V.Nguyen for his outstanding insights and suggestions that were provided, especially thank Prof. Dennis Berg for helpful review and editing English version. I sincerely thank my colleagues Prof. Bui Manh Hung and Binh Nguyen for their continued support and friendship. Of course, any mistakes or wrong-headed thinking that might remain in this paper, I accept responsibility for it.
This article seeks to examine the relationship between scientific output and knowledge economy in... more This article seeks to examine the relationship between scientific output and knowledge economy index in 10 South East Asian countries (ASEAN). Using bibliometric data of the Institute of Scientific Information, we analyzed the number of scientific articles published in international peer-reviewed journals between 1991 and 2010 for Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Singapore. During the 20-year period, scientists from the ASEAN countries have published 165,020 original articles in ISI indexed journals, which represents ~0.5% of the world scientific output. Singapore led the region with the highest number of publications (accounting for 45% of the countries’ total publications), followed by Thailand (21%), Malaysia (16%), Vietnam (6%), Indonesia and the Philippines (5% each). The number of scientific articles from those countries has increased by 13% per year, with the rate of increase being highest in Thailand and Malaysia, and lowest in Indonesia and the Philippines. At the country level, the correlation between knowledge economy index and scientific output was 0.94. Based on the relationship between scientific output and knowledge economy, we identified 4 clusters of countries: Singapore as the first group; Thailand and Malaysia in the second group; Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines in the third group; and Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Brunei in the fourth group. These data suggested that there was a strong relationship between scientific research and the degree of “knowledgization” of economy.
Collegiality is a vital concept in academic culture in Western universities, but it has not been ... more Collegiality is a vital concept in academic culture in Western universities, but it has not been examined sufficiently in Vietnam. On the pathway of Vietnamese universities to achieving international norms, important roles are played not only by academic standards, but also by the relationships between colleagues in university governance and academic production. This paper presents a comparative analysis on the issue of collegiality based upon observations and experiences of a Fulbright scholar from Vietnam. The author focuses on current trends and consider how collegiality can be strengthened in the era of global integration. She contends that the concept of collegiality is an ideal that is easy to admire but hard to enforce. Cultural and socio-political structures, traditional academic and contemporary managerial models are all related to the issue of collegiality. The author also found that, in Vietnam as elsewhere, collegiality between domestic scientists and their international colleagues leads to much better results in academic productivity. Her conclusion is that strengthening collegiality in and between individual faculty members and their academic institutions is vital to serving the collective purpose of Vietnamese higher education in the era of global integration.
I would like to acknowledge and thank Prof Tuan V.Nguyen for his outstanding insights and suggest... more I would like to acknowledge and thank Prof Tuan V.Nguyen for his outstanding insights and suggestions that were provided, especially thank Prof. Dennis Berg for helpful review and editing English version. I sincerely thank my colleagues Prof. Bui Manh Hung and Binh Nguyen for their continued support and friendship. Of course, any mistakes or wrong-headed thinking that might remain in this paper, I accept responsibility for it.
This article seeks to examine the relationship between scientific output and knowledge economy in... more This article seeks to examine the relationship between scientific output and knowledge economy index in 10 South East Asian countries (ASEAN). Using bibliometric data of the Institute of Scientific Information, we analyzed the number of scientific articles published in international peer-reviewed journals between 1991 and 2010 for Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Singapore. During the 20-year period, scientists from the ASEAN countries have published 165,020 original articles in ISI indexed journals, which represents ~0.5% of the world scientific output. Singapore led the region with the highest number of publications (accounting for 45% of the countries’ total publications), followed by Thailand (21%), Malaysia (16%), Vietnam (6%), Indonesia and the Philippines (5% each). The number of scientific articles from those countries has increased by 13% per year, with the rate of increase being highest in Thailand and Malaysia, and lowest in Indonesia and the Philippines. At the country level, the correlation between knowledge economy index and scientific output was 0.94. Based on the relationship between scientific output and knowledge economy, we identified 4 clusters of countries: Singapore as the first group; Thailand and Malaysia in the second group; Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines in the third group; and Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Brunei in the fourth group. These data suggested that there was a strong relationship between scientific research and the degree of “knowledgization” of economy.
Collegiality is a vital concept in academic culture in Western universities, but it has not been ... more Collegiality is a vital concept in academic culture in Western universities, but it has not been examined sufficiently in Vietnam. On the pathway of Vietnamese universities to achieving international norms, important roles are played not only by academic standards, but also by the relationships between colleagues in university governance and academic production. This paper presents a comparative analysis on the issue of collegiality based upon observations and experiences of a Fulbright scholar from Vietnam. The author focuses on current trends and consider how collegiality can be strengthened in the era of global integration. She contends that the concept of collegiality is an ideal that is easy to admire but hard to enforce. Cultural and socio-political structures, traditional academic and contemporary managerial models are all related to the issue of collegiality. The author also found that, in Vietnam as elsewhere, collegiality between domestic scientists and their international colleagues leads to much better results in academic productivity. Her conclusion is that strengthening collegiality in and between individual faculty members and their academic institutions is vital to serving the collective purpose of Vietnamese higher education in the era of global integration.
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