Journal of Tax Reform
Improving tax journal’s international visibility: Findings from literature review and faculty survey
A.P. Kireenko
Ural Federal University named the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Abstract
Russian universities are trying to promote their scientific journals in international citation bases and are making attempts to publish their journals in English. The aim of the study is to examine how can this strategy help to increase the international visibility of Russian tax research and tax journals. The literature review was conducted to investigate the role of scientific journal in faculty’s and university’s ranking. Non-random sampling survey was conducted with on-line questionnaire in September 2021 to examine Russian faculty and academics foreign language publications with connection to their foreign language skills. Based on the literature review we indicated three groups of ranking affecting factors: economic factors (author geographic affiliation, size of university or department, presence of strong business schools, academic training outside), co-authorship (international collaboration, number, gender and quality of co-authors) and individual characteristics (journal’s specialization and quality, faculty’s PHD-affiliation and language skills). We found that 95% of the survey participants have publications in foreign language. The significant relationship between the number of publications and the level of language proficiency exists only for participants who have more than 30 foreign language publications. The 89% of respondents who indicated that they never use a foreign language in their professional activities also have foreign language publications, and 15% of them have publications in journals Web of Science and Scopus (Q1 and Q2). Our findings indicated that the lack of language proficiency is not the main handicap for progression of the Russian research and journals visibility in international level. The main challenge is that we need to direct the research to an audience who might not at all be interested or knowledgeable about the national research context. Based on the obtained results, the recommendations were offered to potential contributors of articles in English and editorial boards.
Keywords
economics journals, economics publishing, tax journals, faculty ranking, university ranking, foreign language publication, language skill
JEL classification
H21; O17; R21References
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Acknowledgements
The research is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 19-010-00365А ‘The shadow economy and its industry features as an obstacle to technological development’.
Author is gratitude to Academic writing center of HSE University for the invitation to AWC International Conference “Supporting Faculty in Writing for Publication: Best Practices” on October 28–29, 2021 and valuable comments to the research presentation.
I am very gratitude to my English teacher Levy Liwanag for his help in reviewing and improving my manuscript
About Authors
Anna P. Kireenko – Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Professor, Department of Financial and Tax Management, Ural Federal University named the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (19 Mira St., Yekaterinburg, 620002, Russia); ORCID: 0000-0002-7860-5929; e-mail: sw.tpk.rt@mail.ru
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Kireenko A.P. Improving tax journal’s international visibility: Findings from literature review and faculty survey. Journal of Tax Reform. 2021;7(3):267–283. doi.org/10.15826/jtr.2021.7.3.103
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Received October 7, 2021; Revised November 12, 2021; Accepted December 9, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15826/jtr.2021.7.3.103
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