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Developmental Trends and Social Attention in Research
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:12.08.2024 10:41:24
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VPUPK_352 | LQF level: | All Levels | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Psychology | Target Audience: | Psychology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Sanita Šuriņa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 5 J. Asara Street, vppk rsu[pnkts]lv, +37167061587 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | Lecture Length (academic hours) | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | General research knowledge appropriate to your level of study, profession and specialization. Prior knowledge in social sciences is desirable, but not a prerequisite for involvement in the project. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide an opportunity for those studying in various study programs of RSU to learn the competence to collaborate interdisciplinary in the organization and implementation of research work, participating in the conduct of specific research and the dissemination of research results. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to the study course | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | The process of conducting research | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Collection of research results | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Presentation and evaluation of work results | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | The student completes group and individual tasks within a certain time limit, if necessary, in cooperation with other course participants, working in teams. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. tasks to be performed individually and/or in a group, depending on the stages of the research that have already been carried out and may include defining the purpose of the research, formulating research tasks and questions, choosing a research method appropriate to the research questions, precisely determining the research sample, procedure, data collection method and data analysis method , describing and presenting research results, explaining them, evaluating scientific strength and drawing conclusions. Likewise, independent work includes presenting research results at conferences, as well as preparing publications. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The following are assessed: approbation of the research results at the conference; teamwork presentation on the achieved results; researcher's diary of group or individual work. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students describe the principles of the organization of the research process and conditions of cooperation, use research terminology, describe and analyze the researched feature using bibliometrics and altmetrics tools. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students collect, process and interpret the data obtained in the study individually and in cooperation in a team, using bibliometric and altmetric methods and present the results of the study. Students evaluate their own and/or teammates' contribution to the development of the research project. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students cooperate in an interdisciplinary team, organizing and implementing research work, as well as disseminating research results, according to the level of study. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Ahmi, A. (2022). Bibliometric Analysis using R for Non-Coders: A practical handbook in conducting bibliometric analysis studies using Biblioshiny for Bibliometrix R package. | ||||||||
| 2 | Holmberg, K. J. (2022). Altmetrics for information professionals: Past, present and future. Chandos Publishing. | ||||||||
| 3 | Tattersall, A. (Ed.). (2023). Altmetrics: A practical guide for librarians, researchers and academics. Routledge. | ||||||||
| 4 | Wallin, J. A., & Nederhof, A. J. (2022). Bibliometrics: Methods for studying academic publishing. Springer | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Arruda, H., Silva, E. R., Lessa, M., Proença, D. J., and Bartholo, R. (2022). VOSviewer and Bibliometrix. JMLA 110, 392–395. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2022.1434 | ||||||||
| 2 | Durieux, V., and Gevenois, P. A. (2010). Bibliometric indicators: quality measurements of scientific publication. Radiology 255, 342–351. doi: 10.1148/radiol.09090626 | ||||||||
| 3 | Donthu, N., Kumar, S., Mukherjee, D., Pandey, N., and Lim, W. M. (2021). How to conduct a bibliometric analysis: an overview and guidelines. J. Bus. Res. 133, 285–296. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.04.070 | ||||||||
| 4 | García-Villar, C. (2021). A critical review on altmetrics: can we measure the social impact factor? Insights Imaging, 12 (92) | ||||||||
| 5 | Glänzel, W. (2003). Bibliometrics as a Research Field: A Course on Theory and Application of Bibliometric Indicators Course Handouts. | ||||||||
| 6 | Holmberg, K. (2016). Introduction. Altmetrics for Information Professionals. Chandos Publishing. | ||||||||
| 7 | Kokol, P., Blažun Vošner, H., and Završnik, J. (2021). Application of bibliometrics in medicine: a historical bibliometrics analysis. Health Info. Libr. J. 38, 125–138. doi: 10.1111/hir.12295 | ||||||||
| 8 | Mukherjee, D., Lim, W. M., Kumar, S., and Donthu, N. (2022). Guidelines for advancing theory and practice through bibliometric research. J. Bus. Res. 148, 101–115. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.04.042 | ||||||||
| 9 | Rousseau, R., Egghe, L., and Guns, R. (2018). Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers Cambridge: Chandos Publishing. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Altmetric | ||||||||
| 2 | MDPI | ||||||||
| 3 | Understanding the Altmetrics score and your research | ||||||||
| 4 | Bibliometric Analysis: The Main Steps | ||||||||
| 5 | How to design bibliometric research: an overview and a framework proposal | ||||||||
