Factors Associated with Scientific Productivity among a Sample of Faculty Members at the Faculty of Arts, El-Mergib University: An Analytical Study

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the factors associated with the research productivity of academic staff in Libyan universities, and to identify the extent to which the research productivity of academic staff in Libyan universities varies according to the variables of age, academic degree, and years of experience. The researcher followed the pattern of analytical descriptive studies, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the study tool was applied. (The questionnaire) after verifying the psychometric properties of the tool on members of the study sample, which consisted of (77) academic staff at the College of Arts, Elmergib University. The results of the study showed that institutional factors have a greater impact on the research productivity of faculty members than personal (individual) factors. This was demonstrated by the relative strength, as it reached (90.64%) for the institutional factors with a weighted average (78.85) and a standard deviation (3.98), while the relative strength for the personal (individual) factors reached (88.51%) with a weighted average (77) and a standard deviation (4.87). The results of the study showed that there were statistically significant differences in the research productivity of academic staff according to the age variable in favor of the age group (less than 30 years), and that there was no difference in the levels of research productivity of academic staff according to the variables of academic degree and years of experience that reached moral significance.