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Secret to GIST’s retaining top spot in quotations of thesis

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REG_DATE : 2010.01.08
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>GIST was ranked 1st in Asia and 14th in the world in ‘quotations of thesis per number of professors’ in the ‘2009 University Rankings’ conducted by Quacquarelli Symonds, or QS, a British university evaluation agency. The university retains top spot in Korea for 12th consecutive year in number of thesis published in journals listed in the SCI. Such remarkable performance – better than such rivals as Seoul National University and KAIST - is attributable to the ‘Competition and Evaluation’ system launched earlier. <o:p></o:p>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>Since the early days of its opening, GIST, now in its 16th year, has reflected research performance in personnel ratings: Those who failed to produce a certain number of papers published in SCI journals get eliminated from the list of potential promotions. Such strict criteria also apply to prospective tenure candidates. The process is well-known for being harsh: Only 50 – 70% of applicants pass the test. In GIST, the latest trend gaining steam among Korean universities– growing difficulties to obtain tenure – has been prevalent at GIST over the past 10 years.   When it comes to research, quality matters as much as quantity. If a professor applied for promotion, he, or she has to go through a process called ‘Peer Review’ in which the university seeks opinions of prestigious foreign professors in the same field to reflect them in the promotion screening process. “We believe that in almost all cases, a person’s level of academic skills and sophistication can be best gauged by asking opinions of foreign experts of the same major because it’s hard to get recognized in one’s own field of study unless you produced lots of excellent papers,” said Hee-chul Choi, Director of International Relations (Dept. of Environmental Science & Engineering).<o:p></o:p>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>Five years ago, GIST also introduced the so-called ‘Impact Factor’, an index that indicates the influence of scientific journals, on professor evaluation. The papers published in the journals with greater impact factor receive added points. That suggests the university seeks to put quality before quantity. <o:p></o:p>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>KAIST<o:p></o:p></TD></TR>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>4  <o:p></o:p></TD>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>Yonsei Univ.<o:p></o:p></TD>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>Inha Univ.<o:p></o:p></TD>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>Inha Univ.<o:p></o:p></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> 

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left><o:p> </o:p>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left> ◆ Select 100 undergraduate students, a first for GSIT <o:p></o:p>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>GIST is about to embark on one of the biggest shifts since its inception: It plans to offer undergraduate courses. Until now, the school has had only graduate and doctorate courses. GIST President Jung-ho Sonu said, “The school will nurture the new elites in science and engineering through systematic education on basic fields for undergraduate students <o:p></o:p>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>Newly-recruited students will get an intensive training on basic science and mathematics including physics and chemistry for 2 years regardless of their majors. <o:p></o:p>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 8.55pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" align=left>Kwan-haeng Lee , Dean of GIST Undergraduate, said, “Our goal is to benchmark Caltech (California Institute of Technology) which produces more than 30 Nobel laureates to transform GIST into a ‘Research-centered university comprised a small number of students where each student is matched with a selected professor in on one-on-one mentoring,” adding, “we are also planning to promote a faculty and student exchange with Caltech.” <PUBLISHED 2009><o:p 7, Dec. on Ilbo Chosun in>

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