Svein Kyvik
Biographic Data
| ID | 759767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svein Kyvik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svein |
| FAMILY NAME | Kyvik |
| SIGNATURE | KYVIK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Assessing the quality of PhD dissertations. A survey of external committee members
This article reports on a study of the quality assessment of doctoral dissertations, and asks whether examiner characteristics influence assessment of research quality in PhD dissertations. Utilising a multi-dimensional concept of quality of PhD dissertations, we look at differences in assessment of research quality, and particularly test whether prior relationship to supervisor, examiners' assessment experience and the regional affiliation of ex…
Explaining the increase in publication productivity among academic staff
In Norwegian research universities, a large individual increase has taken place in scientific and scholarly publishing over the last 30 years. The purpose of this article is to explain the reasons for this growth in a generational perspective. We put forward six hypotheses that can be illuminated by cross-sectional data drawn from five surveys to academic staff and by data from other statistical data sources. New generations of academic staff: (a…
Assessment procedures of Norwegian PhD theses as viewed by examiners from the USA, the UK and Sweden
This article focuses on the assessment procedures of Norwegian PhD theses as viewed by external members of evaluation committees from three countries with different examination systems; the USA, the UK and Sweden. Their viewpoints give useful information not only on the pros and cons with the Norwegian system, but also on the strengths and weaknesses of their own national assessment systems. Various procedures of the four national PhD assessment …
Increasing completion rates in Norwegian doctoral training
This article examines changes in completion rates and time-to-degree in Norwegian doctoral training over the last 30 years. A steadily increasing share of doctoral candidates holding a fellowship have been awarded their doctoral degree within five years; from 30% of those admitted in 1980 to 60% of those admitted 25 years later. Furthermore, the proportion of fellowship holders awarded a doctoral degree within 10 years increased from less than 50…
Academic staff and public communication
This study is a cross-national empirical analysis of popular science publishing among university staff in a 13-country sample. The countries included in the study are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, the UK and the USA. The study seeks to quantify the extent of popular science publishing and its relationship with scientific publishing. Popular science publishing was measured as t…
The Research Mission of Universities of Applied Sciences and the Future Configuration of Higher Education Systems in Europe
Popular Science Publishing and Contributions to Public Discourse among University Faculty
This article explores the roles of university faculty as popularizers of research and as public intellectuals contributing to public discourse through publishing articles for a lay public. Mail surveys undertaken in 1992 and 2001 among faculty members at Norwegian universities show that academic staff in the humanities and social sciences published more popular scientific articles and contributed more to public debate than their fellow colleagues…
Recent changes in the governance of higher education institutions in Norway
Recent changes in the governance of higher education institutions in Norway
The Doctorate in the Nordic Countries
This article gives an overview of the research training systems in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with emphasis on the structure, organisation, time span of the degree, completion rates, labour market and internationalisation of postgraduate education. Even though the various national research training systems in the Nordic countries seem to be becoming more similar, there are still differences in their organisational models. In addition, th…
The Bureaucratisation of Universities
The Exchange of Knowledge
This article explores in what ways and to what extent a small country is integrated in international science. It gives an overview of various types of contact between academic staff members at Norwegian universities and their colleagues abroad, including which countries are the most important for such contact, and shows to what degree faculty members in different fields of learning publish internationally. Faculty members in the social sciences a…
Child Care, Research Collaboration, and Gender Differences in Scientific Productivity
Large differences in scientific productivity between male and female researchers have not yet been explained satisfactorily. This study finds that child care and lack of research collaboration are the two factors that cause significant gender differences in scientific publishing. Women with young children and women who do not collaborate in research with other scientists are clearly less productive than both their male and female colleagues
Motherhood and Scientific Productivity
Virtually all studies on scientific productivity and gender find that men publish more than women. Several investigations indicate that women with children are more productive than childless women, which in turn has been the basis for claiming that women's lower productivity cannot be due to maternal responsibilities. This Note suggests that comparisons between women with children, and those without, can be misleading. When children's age is intr…
Decentralisation of Higher Education and Research in Norway
(1983). Decentralisation of Higher Education and Research in Norway. Comparative Education: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 21-29
Motherhood and Scientific Productivity
Virtually all studies on scientific productivity and gender find that men publish more than women. Several investigations indicate that women with children are more productive than childless women, which in turn has been the basis for claiming that women's lower productivity cannot be due to maternal responsibilities. This Note suggests that comparisons between women with children, and those without, can be misleading. When children's age is intr…
Child Care, Research Collaboration, and Gender Differences in Scientific Productivity
Large differences in scientific productivity between male and female researchers have not yet been explained satisfactorily. This study finds that child care and lack of research collaboration are the two factors that cause significant gender differences in scientific publishing. Women with young children and women who do not collaborate in research with other scientists are clearly less productive than both their male and female colleagues
Explaining the increase in publication productivity among academic staff
In Norwegian research universities, a large individual increase has taken place in scientific and scholarly publishing over the last 30 years. The purpose of this article is to explain the reasons for this growth in a generational perspective. We put forward six hypotheses that can be illuminated by cross-sectional data drawn from five surveys to academic staff and by data from other statistical data sources. New generations of academic staff: (a…
Popular Science Publishing and Contributions to Public Discourse among University Faculty
This article explores the roles of university faculty as popularizers of research and as public intellectuals contributing to public discourse through publishing articles for a lay public. Mail surveys undertaken in 1992 and 2001 among faculty members at Norwegian universities show that academic staff in the humanities and social sciences published more popular scientific articles and contributed more to public debate than their fellow colleagues…
The Research Mission of Universities of Applied Sciences and the Future Configuration of Higher Education Systems in Europe
The Bureaucratisation of Universities
The Exchange of Knowledge
This article explores in what ways and to what extent a small country is integrated in international science. It gives an overview of various types of contact between academic staff members at Norwegian universities and their colleagues abroad, including which countries are the most important for such contact, and shows to what degree faculty members in different fields of learning publish internationally. Faculty members in the social sciences a…
Increasing completion rates in Norwegian doctoral training
This article examines changes in completion rates and time-to-degree in Norwegian doctoral training over the last 30 years. A steadily increasing share of doctoral candidates holding a fellowship have been awarded their doctoral degree within five years; from 30% of those admitted in 1980 to 60% of those admitted 25 years later. Furthermore, the proportion of fellowship holders awarded a doctoral degree within 10 years increased from less than 50…
The Doctorate in the Nordic Countries
This article gives an overview of the research training systems in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with emphasis on the structure, organisation, time span of the degree, completion rates, labour market and internationalisation of postgraduate education. Even though the various national research training systems in the Nordic countries seem to be becoming more similar, there are still differences in their organisational models. In addition, th…
Decentralisation of Higher Education and Research in Norway
(1983). Decentralisation of Higher Education and Research in Norway. Comparative Education: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 21-29
Motherhood and Scientific Productivity
Virtually all studies on scientific productivity and gender find that men publish more than women. Several investigations indicate that women with children are more productive than childless women, which in turn has been the basis for claiming that women's lower productivity cannot be due to maternal responsibilities. This Note suggests that comparisons between women with children, and those without, can be misleading. When children's age is intr…
Child Care, Research Collaboration, and Gender Differences in Scientific Productivity
Large differences in scientific productivity between male and female researchers have not yet been explained satisfactorily. This study finds that child care and lack of research collaboration are the two factors that cause significant gender differences in scientific publishing. Women with young children and women who do not collaborate in research with other scientists are clearly less productive than both their male and female colleagues
The Exchange of Knowledge
This article explores in what ways and to what extent a small country is integrated in international science. It gives an overview of various types of contact between academic staff members at Norwegian universities and their colleagues abroad, including which countries are the most important for such contact, and shows to what degree faculty members in different fields of learning publish internationally. Faculty members in the social sciences a…
Recent changes in the governance of higher education institutions in Norway
Recent changes in the governance of higher education institutions in Norway
The Doctorate in the Nordic Countries
This article gives an overview of the research training systems in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with emphasis on the structure, organisation, time span of the degree, completion rates, labour market and internationalisation of postgraduate education. Even though the various national research training systems in the Nordic countries seem to be becoming more similar, there are still differences in their organisational models. In addition, th…
The Bureaucratisation of Universities
Popular Science Publishing and Contributions to Public Discourse among University Faculty
This article explores the roles of university faculty as popularizers of research and as public intellectuals contributing to public discourse through publishing articles for a lay public. Mail surveys undertaken in 1992 and 2001 among faculty members at Norwegian universities show that academic staff in the humanities and social sciences published more popular scientific articles and contributed more to public debate than their fellow colleagues…
The Research Mission of Universities of Applied Sciences and the Future Configuration of Higher Education Systems in Europe
Academic staff and public communication
This study is a cross-national empirical analysis of popular science publishing among university staff in a 13-country sample. The countries included in the study are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, the UK and the USA. The study seeks to quantify the extent of popular science publishing and its relationship with scientific publishing. Popular science publishing was measured as t…
Assessment procedures of Norwegian PhD theses as viewed by examiners from the USA, the UK and Sweden
This article focuses on the assessment procedures of Norwegian PhD theses as viewed by external members of evaluation committees from three countries with different examination systems; the USA, the UK and Sweden. Their viewpoints give useful information not only on the pros and cons with the Norwegian system, but also on the strengths and weaknesses of their own national assessment systems. Various procedures of the four national PhD assessment …
Increasing completion rates in Norwegian doctoral training
This article examines changes in completion rates and time-to-degree in Norwegian doctoral training over the last 30 years. A steadily increasing share of doctoral candidates holding a fellowship have been awarded their doctoral degree within five years; from 30% of those admitted in 1980 to 60% of those admitted 25 years later. Furthermore, the proportion of fellowship holders awarded a doctoral degree within 10 years increased from less than 50…
Assessing the quality of PhD dissertations. A survey of external committee members
This article reports on a study of the quality assessment of doctoral dissertations, and asks whether examiner characteristics influence assessment of research quality in PhD dissertations. Utilising a multi-dimensional concept of quality of PhD dissertations, we look at differences in assessment of research quality, and particularly test whether prior relationship to supervisor, examiners' assessment experience and the regional affiliation of ex…
Explaining the increase in publication productivity among academic staff
In Norwegian research universities, a large individual increase has taken place in scientific and scholarly publishing over the last 30 years. The purpose of this article is to explain the reasons for this growth in a generational perspective. We put forward six hypotheses that can be illuminated by cross-sectional data drawn from five surveys to academic staff and by data from other statistical data sources. New generations of academic staff: (a…
Political science (15 works) · scientometrics and bibliometrics research (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Higher education (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Norwegian (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)