Publishing and perishing: an academic literacies framework for investigating research productivity

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Publishing and perishing: an academic literacies framework for investigating research productivity

Nygaard, LP; (2017) Publishing and perishing: an academic literacies framework for investigating research productivity. Studies in Higher Education , 42 (3) pp. 519-532. 10.1080/03075079.2015.1058351. Green open access

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Abstract

The current discourse on research productivity (how much peer-reviewed academic output is published by faculty) is dominated by quantitative research on individual and institutional traits; implicit assumptions are that academic writing is a predominately cognitive activity, and that lack of productivity represents some kind of deficiency. Introducing the academic literacies approach to this debate brings issues of identity, multiple communities, and different institutional expectations (at the local, national, and international levels) to the foreground. I argue that academics often juggle competing demands that create various sites of negotiation in the production of academic writing: the results of these negotiations can have a direct impact on what kind of research output is produced, and how much it ‘counts’. Drawing from research on the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), this article demonstrates how a theoretical framework based on academic literacies can be used to investigate research productivity outcomes in specific academic settings.

Type:	Article
Title:	Publishing and perishing: an academic literacies framework for investigating research productivity
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI:	10.1080/03075079.2015.1058351
Publisher version:	https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1058351
Language:	English
Additional information:	Copyright © 2015 The Author. Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Keywords:	academic literacies, academic publishing, academic staff, academic writing, research writing
UCL classification:	UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082257