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Taking innovation to greater heights in Chinese higher education By Vicky Li, Marketing Manager, and Xiaoling Kang, Training Executive, Elsevier, Beijing, China
Researcher Wu Yishan
speaks to forum participants.
After the Olympics, on November 24, 2008, Elsevier cohosted with the Ministry of Education in Beijing
a forum entitled "From Quantity to Quality: How to Improve Innovation at Chinese Higher Education
Institutes." Participants included vice presidents, S&T office directors and librarians from China’s top 39
universities. Discussions covered how to improve the quality and productivity of university research
output and criteria, such as the impact factor and citations, used in evaluating scientific output and quality.
Researcher Wu Yishan, with the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, spoke
on “Thoughts on the Transition from Quantity to Quality of Scientific Papers." Professor Peter
Stambrook, with the University of Cincinnati, spoke on “How to Improve Research Productivity
Using Scopus.” Addressing “How to Strengthen Chinese Higher Education Research Activity” was Professor Liu Niancai
with Shanghai Jiao Tong University. And addressing “How to Improve Positions of the Rankings to Become Global Leading
Universities” was John O’Leary with the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) in the UK.
The forum proved such a hit that already plans are under way to stage it again in 2009, and to make it an annual event.
New edition of
popular LC pamphlet
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