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INNOVATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RESEARCH OUTCOME IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES BASED ON MAPPING KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS

Meng Zhang, Minte Fan

International College, Krirk University, Bangkok 10220, Thailand, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

This paper took public universities as the benchmark, conducted a study on the literature involved scientific research work in private universities utilizing the bibliometric method of mapping knowledge domains. The objective is to analyze the scientific research situation in private universities and explore scholars' concerns about it, as well as reveal the weaknesses of the work and the differences and gaps between private and public universities. The research ideas, literature retrieval methods, operation steps of mapping knowledge domains, analysis process, and analysis conclusions were introduced. The problems are found through the statistics over the number of papers and research by keywords cluster graph and keywords time graph. These problems included in private universities are: the research work lacks innovation drive, the level of talent cultivation requires improvement, the research work lacks internal drive, the influence of central financial expenditure on scientific research has a hysteresis quality but the correlation is high. It is suggested to establish a thorough scientific research management system to ensure the smooth development of scientific research work, meanwhile, establishing a talent training mechanism of production- learning-research integration to improve the level of scientific research personnel. Thus, the level and effectiveness of scientific research work in private universities can be improved.

Keywords: private universities, scientific research, mapping knowledge domains, bibliometric method