Tag: HKU Research
Text Analysis I: Unlocking the Power of Text Analysis
— by Katherine Choi, Kayla Ng, Terry Chung In today’s post, we delve into the fascinating world of text analysis. Text analysis is the process of examining and understanding the structure and content of written works. By identifying patterns, themes, and relationships within a text, text analysis provides insights into the author’s intentions, the intended…
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Top HKU Researchers in Research.com Rankings 2024
— by Yijing He, Zesen Gao, Florence Ng The University of Hong Kong (HKU) takes pride in its distinguished scholars and researchers who excel across various fields of expertise. In our previous blog post, we reported a brief analysis on how HKU researchers were named in 2022 on an educational platform Research.com. This year, Research.com…
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Presenting Research Impact: Metrics, Misuse, and Movement
— by Fanny Liu Introduction Research metrics are quantitative measurements designed to evaluate research outputs and impacts (Wilsdon, 2015). They consist of different measures and statistical methods for assessing the quality and impact of research. Traditionally, research metrics (bibliometrics) focuses on the quantitative analysis of research outputs, most commonly scholarly publications. The most extensively utilized…
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Data Management Plans as a Key to Effective Research Data Management
— by Florence Ng Stepping into the data-driven era, managing research data is crucial for ensuring the integrity, accessibility, and long-term usability of valuable research findings. When it comes to research data management, writing a Data Management Plan (DMP) is recognized as the foundational act in implementing effective strategies to collect, organize, store, curate, and…
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Reading Papers Efficiently with the Three-pass Approach
— by Cindy Liang This blog post summarises the key points of the article How to Read a Paper by S. Keshav, in which he suggests a three-pass approach that he has applied to reading academic papers for many years. It may benefit beginning graduate students and novice researchers to cultivate a good habit of…
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HKU Contribution to Sustainable Development: Committed, Comprehensive, and Crucial
— by Chloe Ng The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (United Nations, 2015) provides a shared roadmap for achieving sustainable development by year 2030. Central to this agenda are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which emphasize the need for global partnership to address pressing challenges and create a better world for present and future…
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Breaking Down Barriers: Transformative Agreements Bringing Open Access to Research
— by Fanny Liu Transformative agreement A transformative agreement is a type of open access publishing agreement that seeks to transform the traditional subscription-based model of scholarly publishing into a more sustainable and equitable system. This new model includes two main components: “Read” and “Publish”. “Read” refers to the subscription fees to access journal articles…
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A Step Forward Towards Open Access: The RGC Publication Gateway
— by Florence Ng The concept of Open Access (OA) in scholarly research community seeks collaborative efforts from different stakeholders to grant free and open online access permanently to academic information, such as journal article publication and research data, etc. As a major academic research funder in Hong Kong, the Research Grants Council (RGC) revealed…
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A Review of HKU’s Research Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
— by Stella Chow Introduction The QS World University Ranking evaluates universities’ contributions to global sustainability by incorporating the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into its methodology. QS uses a set of indicators, such as research output, academic reputation, and impact, to assess universities’ performance in each SDG, which are then combined to give…
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Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University
— by Florence Ng Stanford University has released a publicly available database of top-cited scientists, the World’s Top 2% Scientists for 2022. The ranking list is created based on the bibliometric information retrieved from Scopus as of 1 September 2022, with the data updated to the end of citation year 2021. The datasets are freely…
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