Helena Horta
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 779552 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Helena Horta |
| PRENOMES | Helena |
| SOBRENOME | Horta |
| ASSINATURA | HORTA H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6814-1393 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The role of supervisors in learning about peer reviewing during doctoral studies
Peer reviewers play a vital role in science as gatekeepers and developers of research, but there are increasing findings of reviewer fatigue, biases and other issues, and there have been calls for greater engagement by early career researchers in reviewing for journals. However, few studies have examined the process whereby PhD students learn about peer reviewing during their doctoral studies and the role that supervisors may play in this learnin…
What motivates academics to act as reviewers? Exploring Chinese academics’ motivations to review for international journals
Peer review is a cornerstone of science. However, a growing body of scholarly work argues that peer review is in a state of crisis, partly due to the number of submissions of manuscripts to international journals outpacing the capacity of journals to review them competently, unbiasedly and within expected timeframes. In this context, some of the most pressing concerns are reviewers’ willingness to review and reviewer fatigue. Studies focusing on …
Understanding students’ motivations for pursuing a PhD in non-research-intensive Chinese universities
Although students’ motivations for pursuing a PhD in elite, research-intensive, universities have been explored, little attention has been given to the motivations for pursuing a PhD at other types of universities, despite increasing enrolment in doctoral programmes across a broad range of universities. The current study addresses this research gap by examining the motivations of Chinese doctoral students in non-research-intensive (NRI) universit…
Peer review in Chinese national journals
This study analyzes the history of journal peer review in China through the theoretical lens of historical institutionalism. By analyzing historical records and policies published by the Chinese government and other sources on national journal peer review, this study shows that the history of journal peer review systems in China can be divided into four periods. The first period emerged in the eighteenth century, when the academic beliefs and hab…
How doctoral supervisor–student co-authorship shapes future scientific productivity, collaboration, quality and independence
Doctoral training relies heavily on supervisor–student collaboration as a channel of academic socialization, yet its longer-run implications for productivity and independence remain debated. Using integrated data from Academic Family Tree and OpenAlex, we construct a cross-disciplinary, cross-national dataset spanning 1960–2024 with more than 1.8 million supervisor–student dyads. We examine how the scale, quality, authorship structure, and contin…
Academic inbreeding and boundary-making in higher education institutions
Academic inbreeding continues to be a challenge for many universities in both developed and developing higher education systems, and it is not easy to mitigate or eradicate. The practice has been studied from several standpoints, using a variety of methodologies, but efforts to conceptualise academic inbreeding have been limited. In this study, we add to the understanding of academic inbreeding by extending the conceptualisation of this phenomeno…
Chinese academics’ attitudes towards journal peer-review
Peer-reviewing of scientific submissions to journals is an essential institution within the scientific community. However, this practice has faced increasing pressure due to the prevailing ‘publish or perish’ dynamics, which have provoked imbalances between submission rates and review capacity, thereby overburdening those engaged in the review process. Although some studies have attempted to address some of the challenges facing this system by ex…
The relationship between motivation for doing a PhD and research conceptualizations among STEM doctoral students in China
Navigating complexity
In response to society’s growing focus on social and environmental challenges, universities worldwide are integrating social innovation and entrepreneurship (SIE) education into their curricula. This is a vital step towards achieving sustainable development. However, many SIE education initiatives struggle to maintain rigour and long-term sustainability due to inherent tensions within the university system. While the overall trend is promising, i…
University-based social innovation and entrepreneurship education in Hong Kong
Amidst the intensified discourse surrounding universities’ societal impact, social innovation and entrepreneurship (SIE) has emerged as a way to refocus universities’ engagement in sustainable development, particularly through their core mission of teaching and learning. Growing interest in SIE education over the decades has led to a proliferation of courses and programs offered in various disciplines by universities worldwide. Nevertheless, scho…
Competition dynamics in higher education systems in East Asia
Competition drives change in our fast-paced, globally interconnected, and technology-dependent societies and higher education systems. It shapes behaviours and strategies in response to policies and mechanisms that foster both new and existing competitive environments and goals, creating a self-reinforcing cycle. Embedded in higher education, competition is expected to grow in the coming years. This special issue examines competition in East Asia…
Job preferences of Chinese PhD students in competitive labor markets
The job choices of PhD students have become an increasingly important topic, but there is a lack of research focusing on understanding the decision-making processes of PhD students when presented with various job options. Most of the studies have relied on the revealed preferences of PhD students than on their stated preferences but the latter is a more accurate form of eliciting decision-making processes. This study uses data collected from main…
Engagement in the Journal Peer Reviewing Process Among STEM Doctoral Students in China
Through journal peer review, reviewers play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and integrity of published research. Most of the literature focuses on the challenges facing peer review, while limited research has been conducted on the engagement of academics with peer review and little to none has focused on the engagement of doctoral students. Considering that doctoral studies are pivotal in the training of independent researchers and peer re…
Academically inbred presidents and university performance
The presidents of universities are increasingly perceived as key contributors to university performance, but their contribution has been analysed mainly from the perspective of research performance. Our study assesses the impact of university presidents on university performance considering a wider range of university performance indicators that include research performance, student growth and spin-off creation. In particular, the study assesses …
The crisis of peer review
Peer review in journals is in crisis, and its current situation and sustainability are increasingly concerning for academics and scientific communities. We identify this crisis as part of an evolutionary step in the continuous development of science, arguing that peer review maintains a central role. We analyse the emergence and historical development of peer review, identifying its role as crucial to the legitimisation of global science, particu…
Decision making of PhD students regarding careers and employment in East Asia
The authors have no conflict of interest to declare in relation to this submission. The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request
Using large‐scale bibliometric data in higher education research
All fields of knowledge are challenged to adopt newer, more sophisticated methodologies to cope with growing complexity. Phenomena under study require further multidisciplinary and mixed methods collaborations to achieve expertise able to improve research strategies and practices. Furthermore, traditional methodological approaches face limits to their analytical reach. Here, we demonstrate opportunities from adopting newer, more sophisticated met…
Why do students pursue a doctorate in the era of the ‘PhD crisis’? Evidence from Taiwan
Drawing on interviews with nine PhD students and twelve PhD graduates from a research university in Taiwan, this paper explores students' motivational profiles for pursuing a PhD at a time when that degree is increasingly decoupled from academic employment. Using self‐determination theory as a conceptual lens, the paper identifies common enrolment motivations in the PhD crisis era. Amidst the doctoral enrolment crisis in Taiwan, where the traditi…
Exploring the identity development of PhD graduates transitioning to non‐researcher roles
In this study, we explore the identity development of PhD graduates transitioning into non‐researcher roles. Through the conceptual lens of identity‐trajectory theory and based on interviews with 26 PhD graduates from three leading research universities in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, we analyse their identity‐trajectory development after their transition to non‐research employment. The findings show that PhD graduates develop their identity traj…
The same starting line? The effect of a master’s degree on PhD students’ career trajectories
Research on the career trajectories of doctoral recipients often assumes that all PhD students begin in roughly the same starting position. Consequently, the impact of pre-programme experiences remains understudied. This qualitative study draws on 59 interviews with PhD students studying in mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the influence of learning experiences during the master’s degree programme on planned PhD career trajectories. Using i…
Homophily and its effects on collaborations and repeated collaborations
This study examines the influence of homophily on research collaborations across all scientific fields, noting the role of ascribed, acquired, geographical, current career, and educational and career history attributes. Our analysis builds on previous studies by adopting a comparative approach across scientific fields and examining the effect of homophily on repeated collaborations. Our findings reveal physical proximity as a universal driver of …
Ageism and age anxiety experienced by Chinese doctoral students in enacting a “successful” career script in academia
This paper employs the notion of a “career script” as a conceptual basis to examine how age-based academic career norms are internalized, strategized, and reproduced among PhD students aspiring to become academics. It draws on interviews with 70 PhD students at leading universities in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau that were organized and explored using narrative inquiry. The findings suggest that the tournament-like, age-based career scrip…
High- and low-achieving international medical students’ perceptions of the factors influencing their academic performance at Chinese universities
China has become an attractive destination for international medical students, particularly those from developing countries in Asia and Africa. These students are known to face difficulties in adapting to Chinese medical universities and they tend to score poorly on subsequent examinations to enter the medical profession in their home or in a third country. To date, limited research concerning the factors that affect the academic performance of t…
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals
Research productivity is a common topic in the literature, but peer reviewing for journals has received less attention, although it is a key activity of academic research. We help to fill this knowledge gap by assessing the determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals. We do so by analysing the combined information from a survey of academics working in different parts of the world and various fields of science, along …
Perceived academic working conditions and career choices of Chinese PhD students
Researchers have shown that the pursuit of doctoral studies is often related to the desire to become an academic, despite the constrained academic labour markets and changing (or deteriorating, as some have argued) academic working conditions (AWC) worldwide. In this study, we assessed the extent to which Chinese PhD students were aware of the changes taking place in the academic profession and, if so, whether this awareness influenced their care…
Nothing but publishing
Publication pressure is perceived to be filtering down into doctoral education worldwide. We explore the causes and effects of the perceived centrality of publishing among doctoral students, emphasising the impact of publication pressure on students’ identity trajectories. We draw on a qualitative analysis of 90 mainland Chinese doctoral students at universities in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. We find that the credentialisation of public…
Living in uncertainty
Amongst all jurisdictions, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China has been one of the most effective in limiting cases of COVID-19, despite being one of the first places to be affected by the pandemic in early 2020. In the months since the first case was confirmed, COVID-19 has affected all aspects of Hong Kong society, including the higher education sector. In this collective reflective essay, we describe the effects of these unexp…
Research agendas of female and male academics
The presence of gender disparities in academia was assessed by analysing the characteristics of the research agendas of academics. Multivariate analysis of variance and structural equation modelling coupled with multi-group analysis were used to identify different gender trajectories. The research agenda preferences of women were less risky and less focused on fields likely to lead to scientific discovery, but were organised in a more collaborati…
Current and future challenges of the Chinese research system
This paper assesses the evolution and current situation of the Chinese research system, mainly the academic research system from 1996 to 2017, using trend analysis and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index. Despite the impressive growth of China's knowledge capability, as measured by the number of publications in the international indexed literature over the past four decades, the country is still in a catching-up pattern with the world'…
An output perspective on the teaching-research nexus
This empirical study demonstrates that teaching and research can be leveraged synergistically and contribute to research outputs. In particular, it is critical to consider the nature of the learning environment associated with the teaching effort. First, by distinguishing between graduate and undergraduate education, the authors conclude that involvement in graduate teaching can play a significant role in driving research output. Moreover, both u…
The Role of the State in the Internationalization of Universities in Catching-up Countries
Academic Inbreeding
Mobility, formation and development of the academic profession in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in East and South East Asia
The academic profession contributes to shaping the capacity and identity of higher education systems. In East and Southeast Asia, there is a need for further discussion on the regional identity characteristics of the academic profession to account for its multiple origins and national and international dimensions. Data from two large-scale comparative surveys and secondary sources are used to investigate the role of international mobility in the …
Organisational factors and academic research agendas
The demands for academic research placed on contemporary universities are closely related to the levels of innovative research they are expected to produce. Concurrently, both governments and university management strive to make the production of academic research more cost-efficient and have implemented measures to ensure this. Top-down policies influenced by the concepts of new public management and managerialism have been introduced, pushing f…
Queros de madera del Collasuyo
Tomando como base los trabajos previos de Rowe (1961), Núñez (1963) y Espoueys (1974) acerca de la definición tipológica de los queros o vasos ceremoniales prehispánicos del área centro-sur andina, presento evidencias arqueológicas acerca de un tipo de quero que muestra una figura de felino tallada en el borde, que por sus características contextuales y estilísticas corresponde a una tradición no inca en los Valles Occidentales (Moquegua, Tacna, …
PhD funding as a determinant of PhD and career research performance
This article focuses on the effects of PhD funding on research performance both during the degree and throughout researchers’ careers as measured through publications and citations. This analysis draws from a representative sample of researchers holding a doctorate based in Portugal and finds that those funded by grants during the PhD perform better than the self-funded ones. It also finds that different PhD funding sources produce different outc…
Radiocarbon Dating of Atacama (Chile) Snuff Trays
The Atacama region of Chile has the highest concentration of hallucinogenic paraphernalia from prehistoric cemeteries on the planet. These artifacts have been studied since the late 19th century, primarily from the perspective of stylistic classification, which has been used to infer their temporal assignation. However, direct chronological dating of the snuff trays has not been addressed until now, through an interdisciplinary study conducted in…
Supporting Academic Women’s Careers
Challenges to research systems, academic research and knowledge production in East Asia
2020). Challenges to research systems, academic research and knowledge production in East Asia: learning from the past to inform future policy. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management: Vol. 42, Challenges to research systems, academic research and knowledge production in East Asia: Learning from the past to inform future policy, pp. 119-133
Mobility and Research Performance of Academics in City-Based Higher Education Systems
On Improving the University Research Base
Perceived academic working conditions and career choices of Chinese PhD students
Researchers have shown that the pursuit of doctoral studies is often related to the desire to become an academic, despite the constrained academic labour markets and changing (or deteriorating, as some have argued) academic working conditions (AWC) worldwide. In this study, we assessed the extent to which Chinese PhD students were aware of the changes taking place in the academic profession and, if so, whether this awareness influenced their care…
The relationship between competition and programmatic diversification
In this study, we analyse the relationship between competition and programmatic diversification in 75 Italian universities from the academic years of 2003/2004 to 2011/2012. Results show that local competition, rather than national competition, influences programmatic diversification. The relationship between local competition and programmatic diversification is found to be quadratic such that when competition increases, diversification decreases…
The Contribution of East Asian Countries to Internationally Published Asian Higher Education Research
Democratizing Higher Education and Access to Science
On Improving the University Research Base
Navel Gazing
The practice of having Ph.D. graduates employed by the university that trained them, commonly called “academic inbreeding,” has long been suspected to be damaging to scholarly practices and achievement. Despite this perception, existing work on academic inbreeding is scarce and mostly exploratory. Using data from Mexico, we find evidence that, first, academic inbreeding is associated with lower scholarly output. Second, the academically inbred fa…
The Role of the State in the Internationalization of Universities in Catching-up Countries
An output perspective on the teaching-research nexus
This empirical study demonstrates that teaching and research can be leveraged synergistically and contribute to research outputs. In particular, it is critical to consider the nature of the learning environment associated with the teaching effort. First, by distinguishing between graduate and undergraduate education, the authors conclude that involvement in graduate teaching can play a significant role in driving research output. Moreover, both u…
Deepening our understanding of academic inbreeding effects on research information exchange and scientific output
Democratizing Higher Education and Access to Science
Queros de madera del Collasuyo
Tomando como base los trabajos previos de Rowe (1961), Núñez (1963) y Espoueys (1974) acerca de la definición tipológica de los queros o vasos ceremoniales prehispánicos del área centro-sur andina, presento evidencias arqueológicas acerca de un tipo de quero que muestra una figura de felino tallada en el borde, que por sus características contextuales y estilísticas corresponde a una tradición no inca en los Valles Occidentales (Moquegua, Tacna, …
Higher Education Research in East Asia
The Contribution of East Asian Countries to Internationally Published Asian Higher Education Research
Radiocarbon Dating of Atacama (Chile) Snuff Trays
The Atacama region of Chile has the highest concentration of hallucinogenic paraphernalia from prehistoric cemeteries on the planet. These artifacts have been studied since the late 19th century, primarily from the perspective of stylistic classification, which has been used to infer their temporal assignation. However, direct chronological dating of the snuff trays has not been addressed until now, through an interdisciplinary study conducted in…
The Impact of Publishing During PhD Studies on Career Research Publication, Visibility, and Collaborations
Mobility, formation and development of the academic profession in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in East and South East Asia
The academic profession contributes to shaping the capacity and identity of higher education systems. In East and Southeast Asia, there is a need for further discussion on the regional identity characteristics of the academic profession to account for its multiple origins and national and international dimensions. Data from two large-scale comparative surveys and secondary sources are used to investigate the role of international mobility in the …
Higher education research in Hong Kong, Japan, China, and Malaysia
This article analyzes higher education research published in international higher education journals by researchers from China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Malaysia from 1980 to 2013. It does so based on publication counts, and co-authorship and cross-citation mapping, examining these countries’ publication patterns in terms of thematic approach and community cohesion. The results show that each country has experienced distinct evolutions of higher edu…
PhD funding as a determinant of PhD and career research performance
This article focuses on the effects of PhD funding on research performance both during the degree and throughout researchers’ careers as measured through publications and citations. This analysis draws from a representative sample of researchers holding a doctorate based in Portugal and finds that those funded by grants during the PhD perform better than the self-funded ones. It also finds that different PhD funding sources produce different outc…
Dual appointments and research collaborations outside academia
The literature suggests that academic researchers with dual-appointment contracts, i.e. those employed concurrently by a university and an organization outside academia, have the potential to be more engaged in research collaborations with non-academic partners than colleagues contractually linked to a university only. Our results suggest that this relationship is not simple. Based on a sample of 7773 academic researchers in Europe, our findings …
Mobility and Research Performance of Academics in City-Based Higher Education Systems
The relationship between competition and programmatic diversification
In this study, we analyse the relationship between competition and programmatic diversification in 75 Italian universities from the academic years of 2003/2004 to 2011/2012. Results show that local competition, rather than national competition, influences programmatic diversification. The relationship between local competition and programmatic diversification is found to be quadratic such that when competition increases, diversification decreases…
The Multidimensional Research Agendas Inventory—Revised (MDRAI-R)
This study creates a novel inventory that characterizes factors influencing the research agendas of researchers in all fields of knowledge: the Multi-dimensional Research Agendas Inventory-Revised (MDRAI-R). The MDRAI-R optimizes an initial inventory designed for the social sciences (the MDRAI) by reducing the number of items per dimension, improving the inventory’s psychometric properties, and including new dimensions (“Academia Driven” and “Soc…
Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction of International Students in Mainland China
Research agendas of female and male academics
The presence of gender disparities in academia was assessed by analysing the characteristics of the research agendas of academics. Multivariate analysis of variance and structural equation modelling coupled with multi-group analysis were used to identify different gender trajectories. The research agenda preferences of women were less risky and less focused on fields likely to lead to scientific discovery, but were organised in a more collaborati…
Revelando la iconografía prehispánica y europea de la tableta de metal del museo de La Plata
Presentamos el análisis de la única tableta elaborada en metal hasta ahora conocida en el registro arqueológico Centro-Sur Andino (Museo de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina) y reviste características peculiares en su manufactura y en su iconografía. Estos aspectos han sido abordados junto con la revisión de datos referidos a su procedencia, con el fin de interpretar su iconografía y dilucidar la posible ubicación temporal de su fabricación. Nues…
Challenges to research systems, academic research and knowledge production in East Asia
2020). Challenges to research systems, academic research and knowledge production in East Asia: learning from the past to inform future policy. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management: Vol. 42, Challenges to research systems, academic research and knowledge production in East Asia: Learning from the past to inform future policy, pp. 119-133
Organisational factors and academic research agendas
The demands for academic research placed on contemporary universities are closely related to the levels of innovative research they are expected to produce. Concurrently, both governments and university management strive to make the production of academic research more cost-efficient and have implemented measures to ensure this. Top-down policies influenced by the concepts of new public management and managerialism have been introduced, pushing f…
Current and future challenges of the Chinese research system
This paper assesses the evolution and current situation of the Chinese research system, mainly the academic research system from 1996 to 2017, using trend analysis and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index. Despite the impressive growth of China's knowledge capability, as measured by the number of publications in the international indexed literature over the past four decades, the country is still in a catching-up pattern with the world'…
Brokers of international student mobility
The study on which this article reports explored the role of education agents in international student mobility, developing a better understanding of how they operate, behave and think when dealing with the admissions processes of universities overseas. The behaviours and reasoning, the modus operandi , and positioning of education agents are analysed using agency theory; specifically, the information‐asymmetric relations that they have with the …
Political science (50 obras) · Sociology (47 obras) · Higher education (44 obras) · Psychology (31 obras) · Higher Education Governance and Development (29 obras) · Economics (26 obras) · Public relations (23 obras) · China (20 obras) · Economic growth (19 obras) · Social science (19 obras)