期刊名称：Pakistan Journal of Library and Information Science
印刷版ISSN：1680-4465
出版年度：2014
卷号：15
出版社：University of the Punjab
摘要：This study explores the research trends at Pakistani universities by highlighting the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the research process and its productivity. It also investigates the impact of Higher Education Commission (HEC) initiatives for research output in Pakistani universities in general and PU, in particular. It explores the essential ICT skills to increase research productivity as perceived by researchers fro m the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences through structured interviews. An analysis of HEC of Pakistan and PU websites is carried out. The statistics of these websites shows that there is an increase in the number of research articles and PhDs produced every year. Data show that the respondents are not fully utilizing the pricey electronic sources provided by the HEC, yet there is a yearly increase in a number of PhDs produced and published research. The relative growth rate of research productivity and doubling time were not constant. It is also observed that doubling time has increased while the relative growth rate is going to decrease
关键词：Information Communication ; Technologies; Research Productivity; HEC-Pakistan; ; E-databases; Research Repository: University of the ; Punjab.
