Obstacles to Scholar Publishing among Faculty Members at the Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University and Proposals to Overcome them

Ahmed, Sahar M.

doi:10.21608/jsre.2024.292968.1694

Obstacles to Scholar Publishing among Faculty Members at the Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University and Proposals to Overcome them

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Sahar M. Ahmed

Department of Fundamentals of Education Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University, Egypt

10.21608/jsre.2024.292968.1694

Abstract

The current study aims to reveal the obstacles to scientific publishing among faculty members at the Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University, and to reveal the differences between their responses to the obstacles to scientific publishing according to the variables of specialization and scientific degree. The study also aimed to provide suggested procedures that contribute to activating the scientific publishing movement at the Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University. The study used the descriptive approach, in addition to relying on a questionnaire, and a sample of 20% of the study population was selected, representing 185 faculty members. The study reached several results, the most important of which are: faculty members’ agreement on the existence of obstacles to scientific publishing. Most of the obstacles to scientific publishing are those related to researchers, perhaps the first of which is the weakness of teamwork culture in scientific research, the lack of time and the large number of burdens. The researchers attributed most of the publishing problems to themselves and not to the university or publishing procedures or scientific journals.
The study also proved that there are no differences between faculty members due to specialization (scientific, literary, educational) or scientific degree, except that professors emeriti had an issue with the information obstacle related to databases, access to information, and the rapid change in the media of knowledge, meaning that these issues represent an obstacle that hinders them from scholar publishing

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Education

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