Abstract
Faculty scholarly productivity in the form of research publication consistently appreciated for its role in improving education and advancing knowledge. The purpose of this study is to increase research productivity among nursing academic staff of higher education institution. A prospective, one-group pre- and post-test experimental design was performed in a nonrandomized intervention group of nursing faculty members who attended a series of seminars and workshops of research. The target population comprised 50 faculty members working in a governmental university in the eastern region of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Results indicate that the difference in number of publications, web of science citations, Scopus citations, and google scholar citation after implementation of stimulating research productivity program were statistically significant. Faculty members experience changes in attitude toward and intention to conduct research, as well as the number of their published research articles as the result of two-year educational interventional program on research productivity. The researchers, thus, recommend that higher education institutions, including schools of nursing and other health professions, adopt the Thomson Reuters’ intervention to accomplish the well-needed improvement in scholarly productivity, especially in the develo** world, such as Middle Eastern countries.
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The authors express their appreciation to all faculty members who participated in this study. Also, thanks extended to all researchers and research assistants who contributed in the current study. In addition, the authors certified that the abstract was presented on 47th Global Nursing & Healthcare Conference March 01-03, 2018 London, UK and was not published there. "This article title can be accessed on the following link: https://www.omicsonline.org/speaker/mahmoud-ogla-al-hussami-the-university-of-jordanjordan/" However, the article titled " Nursing Faculty Members' Attitudes and Perceived Barriers toward Conducting Scientific Research: A Descriptive Study from Saudi Arabia" http://www.internationaljournalofcaringsciences.org/docs/63._darawad_original10_2.pdf" is a descriptive study and nothing to do with our study except is gathered on the same sample.
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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. MA-H, MD, and RA-H: Material preparation, design, and data collection were performed. HA and EAA: Analysis and interpretation of data were performed. The first draft of the manuscript was written by MA-H and ME-H and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Al-Hussami, M., Darawad, M., Alduraidi, H. et al. Effectiveness of an education intervention to strengthen faculty members' research productivity: a quasi-experimental study. SN Soc Sci 1, 128 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-021-00147-0
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