Reflexive of Kasetsart University's Research Works Published in Kasetsart Journal

Abstract

Kasetsart University Research and Development Institute (KURDI) has had a major policy in enhancing university personnel to disseminate qualified research to public through various media including Kasetsart University Journal (KU Journal). The study on "Reflexive of Kasetsart University's Research Works Published in KU Journal" emphasized as follows: 1) to compare the number of research regarding fields of study published in KU Journal 2) to compare the number of research regarding faculty and department published in KU Journal 3) to investigate the proportion of KU personnel's contribution to KU Journal. The study was conducted by analyzing research documents published in KU Journal from 1986-2002 in both fields: Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. The findings of the study were as follows. 1) The most number of articles in KU Journal were written by KU researchers rather than the outsiders. 2) Average number of articles per year in KU Journal (Natural Sciences) were in rank order from the most to the least: faculty of Agriculture, faculty of Agro-Industry, and faculty of Sciences=29.8, 11.6 and 8.2, respectively. 3) Average number of articles per year in KU Journal (Social Sciences) were in rank order from the most to the least: faculty of Agriculture, faculty of Economics, faculty of Education, and faculty of Social Sciences=5.8, 3.8, 2.8 and 2.8, respectively. 4) The proportion of KU personnel showed that the faculty and the supporting staff of faculty of Agro-Industry contributed to KU Journal from 1998-2002 at the most=0.15 and 6.44, respectively. 5) The proportion of KU personnel showed that the faculty of faculty of Economics, and Social Sciences contributed to KU Journal (Social Sciences) at the most=0.04; whereas the highest involvement of KU supporting staff was faculty of Economics supporting staff = 2.11.