Identifying strategies to improve research publication output in health and rehabilitation sciences: a review of the literature

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dc.contributor.authorFrantz, Jose M.
dc.contributor.authorAmosun, Seyi Ladele
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-28T09:56:58Z
dc.date.available2014-10-28T09:56:58Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe health research community in South Africa annually produces a fair number of research papers in national and international health and related journals. Unfortunately, the proportion of papers produced by authors in health and rehabilitation sciences is insignificant compared with other disciplines. To identify strategies to increase the number of publications in South Africa, this article reports on a review of published papers into the effectiveness of interventions designed to promote research publications among academics and clinicians in health and rehabilitation sciences programmes. Seven of the papers reported on interventions for academics, and six reported on the interventions for academics in the nursing profession. The most common interventions were ‘writing support groups’, ‘writing retreats’, and ‘writing courses’ that lasted from 3 days to 5 years. The interventions were designed to meet the needs of the participants for structured time, motivation, improved writing skills and peer support. All the interventions produced significant research output relating to submission or publication of academic papers. The implementation of these interventions by South African tertiary institutions where health and rehabilitation sciences are offered may improve the number of papers published by the health research community.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved listen_US
dc.identifier.citationFrantz, J.M. & Amosun, S. (2011). Identifying strategies to improve research publication output in health and rehabilitation sciences: a review of the literature. African Journal of Health Professions Education, 3 (1): 7-10en_US
dc.identifier.issn2078-5127
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1282
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherHealth and Medical Publishing Groupen_US
dc.rights© 2011 Frantz and Amosun; licensee Health and Medical Publishing Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectWriting support groupsen_US
dc.subjectHealth and rehabilitation sciencesen_US
dc.subjectWriting retreatsen_US
dc.titleIdentifying strategies to improve research publication output in health and rehabilitation sciences: a review of the literatureen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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