| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 農藝學研究所 === 101 === To upleft Taiwan the quality of higher education and research level, Ministry of Education of Taiwan in 2005 year initialed "Five-year 50 Billions towards the Top University Program". The program is structured into two phases；the first phase is from 2006 to 2010 and the second phase is from 2011 to 2015. Through competitive review process , various universities in Taiwan where funded to upgrade infrastructure and to recruit foreign outstanding faculty in order to raise the performance on teaching , research , and industry cooperation and to compete with top universities in the world. The objective of the thesis is to investigate the difference on research performance between the 5-year period (2001-2005) before initiation of the program and the 5-year period (2006-2010) after the start of the program at the National Taiwan University.
This study is focused on the biological fields at the National Taiwan University which include college of biological resources and agriculture, college of public health, college of biological sciences, college of medicine. The performance measure is the average papers per faculty per year during each period. We only consider the paper published in the SCI or SSCI journals for which faculty is either the first author or the corresponding author. We also compare the performance by college, gender, rank , employment duration, and promotion. The average papers per faculty per year increase from 1.21 during the period of from 2001 to 2005 to 1.79 during the period from 2006 to 2010. The mean difference in average paper per faculty per year is 0.58, and 95% confidence interval is [0.47,0.68], with the corresponding p-value<.0001. Our results indicate that the "Five-year Fifty Billions Program” improves the research performance in the biological fields at the National Taiwan University.
Key words: five years five top university program, Science Citation Index (SCI), social sciences citation index database (SSCI), research performance
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