Factors Affecting Academic Staff’s Research Performance in Vietnam’s Universities

Abstract

This research study aims to determine the factors affecting the academic staff’s research performance in Vietnam’s higher education context. An online survey was conducted, achieving responses from 207 respondents who were lecturers of different scientific fields in Vietnamese universities. The SAS system was used to process both descriptive and inferential statistics. The study’s results indicated that research competency was the main factor affecting Vietnamese university teachers’ domestic and international research achievements. Meanwhile, English proficiency only had a significant impact at the international level. Additionally, social science academics were less skillful in researching and less productive in international research than other sciences. As a result, some implications for improving academic research performance are discussed in this paper.

Keywords

• Research performance
• research motivation
• research ability
• research environment
• university teacher