Open AccessInternationalizing a Broader View of Scholarship: An Exploratory Study of Faculty Publication Productivity in Boyer’s Four Domains of Scholarship in English-speaking Universities
Author(s) -
Brian L. Heuser,
Dawn Lyken-Segosebe,
John M. Braxton
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
comparative and international higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2151-0407
pISSN - 2151-0393
DOI - 10.32674/jcihe.v12ifall.1611
Subject(s) - scholarship , publication , publish or perish , higher education , productivity , political science , population , library science , sociology , publishing , law , computer science , demography , economics , macroeconomics
Boyer’s four domains of scholarship provided the basis for a comparative investigation of the scholarly output of faculty members in 14 countries and at 100 English-speaking universities on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2013–2014) top-400 institutions. Full-time university faculty members who held tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track academic appointments across three high-consensus and three low-consensus academic fields were the population of interest. The findings revealed that faculty members in US Research I and doctoral-granting universities and their international faculty counterparts in English-speaking universities publish relatively similar levels of scholarship directed toward application and discovery and have similar levels of inactivity in their publication of teaching-oriented scholarship. Tests for academic discipline-specific differences revealed little variation except for the finding that academic chemists tend to produce more publications in the application domain. Cross-national variation was also found in the publication of application-oriented scholarship. Suggestions for further research are proposed.