Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student, Department of Information Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor in Knowledge and Information Science, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

3 Research and Policy Analyst, Eastern Canada Higher Education Commission, Canada

Abstract

This study seeks to determine the level of knowledge and skills of PhD students in publishing their resources in scholarly journals and assess the relationship between publishing skills in journals and variables of field, gender, age and its relationship with the number of articles published in national and international journals. Finally, the impact of participating in related workshops is on the level of this skill. Methodology is an applied type with a quantitative and survey method. The statistical population includes all PhD students at the University of Isfahan in the number of 2432 people. The sampling was stratified random, the volume of which was estimated to be 332 using Krejcie and Morgan table, The skills rate of students was moderate and varied in different fields. But gender and age had no effect on its rate. The level of literacy was also positively correlated with the number of articles published in internal and international journals, and participation in related workshop increased its average score. Since the students' skills were moderate, this research could be the beginning of a study that, like information literacy, creates a framework called publishing literacy in scholarly journals for novice researchers to benefit from. The results indicated the acquisition of this skill, the need to plan related training courses, the impact of the author's role in increasing this skill, the need to modify and pay attention to regulations and criteria for student admission, and the importance of holding related training workshops by universities.

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