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Johan Woxenius Research and publishing seminarSchool of Business, University of Nairobi, 30 November 2011

Johan Woxenius, Transport Economy and Logistics

Research and publishing seminarSchool of Business, University of Nairobi

30 November 2011, 11.30-13.00

Johan WoxeniusDepartment of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law

at University of GothenburgVisiting professor at School of Business, University of Nairobi


Agenda

Cooperation between universities and industry/public sector in SwedenThe Swedish background

Why and how we work together

The personal and organisational benefitsof doing research and publish

Different types of research

Different types of publications

My own and my organisation’sexperiences of publishing

The scientific journal publishing process

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Swedish background

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Public sector Large employer

Large owner of industries

High taxes

Visible returns for citizens

Private sector Large export-oriented firms

Basic industries

Automotive

High-tech industries

Academy 16 universities

6 university colleges

25 regional and special colleges

Appr. 40 % go through college

Policy aim of 50%


Collaboration: universities, industry and society A long Swedish tradition of mutual dependency between research,

industry and the public sector

Reasons Small country with limited resources – we need to co-operate!

“Planned market economy” with a strong public sector and large firms

R&D-intensive export firms require scientific advance

Swedish team-work tradition

Low employer mobility – stable networks

Benefits Supply of human resources – knowledge carriers

Joint learning experiences

Strong applied research based on real data

“Industry is our lab”

Motivation!

Triple helix!

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Traditional/liniar view on the role of universities

Academic Research (producers)

The results are disseminated

Public and Private Sector (users)

Publica-tions

Venture Creation

Research and Basic Education

Continuing Education

Presenta-tions andlectures

Research coopera-

tion

Consul-tancy

research

Patent and licences

Technology Transfer Offices

Incuba-tors

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Academic Research

Public and Private Sector Research and Practice

Publica-tions

Venture Creation

Research and Basic Education

ContinuingEducation

Communi-cation

Research coopera-

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ConsultancyResearch

Patent och licences

Knowledge Clusters (co-production) Sou

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Integrated view on the role of universities

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Academy

Public Sector

Private Sector

KnowledgeCluster

Triple Helix

• Identified strengths, expectations, interests and roles• Coordinated innovation systems

• Universities as nodes in glocal knowledge clusters• Attract competence and investments

Research

Education Innovation

The KnowledgeTriangle

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Development of research funding

1. Research funding directly from the state to universities

2. Channelling through research funding agencies small project applications

competition between individual researchers

3. Support letters from industry

4. Co-funding from industry

5. Direct involvement from industry large project applications

competition between supply chains

competition between researchers and industry

6. Concentration of funds programme applications

competition between university consortia with strong industry commitment


Academy

Public Sector

Private Sector

KnowledgeCluster

Research

Education Innovation

The Knowledge

Triangle

Traditional research and education funds

Strategic programme funding

Project funding from research funding

agencies, EU, industry etc.

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Why do research?Reflection and personal stimulus and prestigeBe part of collective knowledge creation

Awareness of others’ research

Renewing the own teachingBeing updated and collect examples for teaching

Institutional visibility

”Teachers also doing research distinguishuniversities from colleges”

Strong focus on academic positions mixing research and teaching in Sweden

Teaching record increasingly important for promotions


Why publish?

As an individualQuality check of the own research

Learning process

Personal visibility and prestige

PhD examination and promotions

As an institution International benchmark

Institutional visibility and prestige

University rankings

Attract funding

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Forms of publications

Theses for academic degrees

Stand-alone reports

Reports in series

Conference papers

Book chapters

Non-ranked journals

Ranked journals

Popular science articles


Scientific reports

Stand alone reports

Project specific reports

Report series Informal or formal review process

Formatting standards

ISSN numbers

Possibility to track through libraries and data bases

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Reports vs. journal articles

Advantages reportsFast publication

Maintained copyright

Room for a full context

Wider audience• Accessible for non-academians

• Accessible for other disciplines

Suitable for investigations

Advantages articlesHigher academic status

Support by reviewers

Few people read full reports

Targeted audience

Focus on the scientificcontribution


Book chapters vs. journal articles

Book chaptersOften results of projects or

conferences

The book can give a full context

Slightly wider audience• Attractive to researchers new in an area

• Attractive to practitioners who want a context

• Might be coures material

Nice with team work!

Some book series are now turned into journals Easier access in electronic format

Example: Research in transportation economics

Journal articlesHigher academic status

No need for coordinationwith other authors

Few people read full books

Easier to retreive singlearticles

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Non-ranked vs. ranked journals

Non-rankedShorter lead times

Lower risk of rejection

Targeted audience dueto more narrow scope

Less strict copyright

Journal rankings are not strictly corresponding to quality!

RankedPrestige and visibility

Quality check/benchmark

Feeds into university rankings and, increasingly, to fundingKPIs


Theses (4)

Woxenius, J. (1998) Development of Small-scale Intermodal Transportation in a Systems Context, Dissertation, Report 34, Department of Transportation and Logistics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. 235 pages + 2 appendices.

Woxenius, J. (1994) Modelling European Combined Transport as an Industrial System, Licentiate Thesis, Report 24, Department of Transportation and Logistics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. 150 pages + 3 articles.

Woxenius, J. (1992) Containertransporternas Historia (History of Container Transportation), Thesis in History of Economics, Department of History of Economics, University of Gothenburg, 78 pages. In Swedish.

Woxenius, J. (1991) Förenkling av avtalsstruktur mellan SJ Kombi Väst och rederiagenter (Recommendation of New Framework for Contracts Between SJ Kombi and Shipping Agencies), Master thesis, Department of Transportation and Logistics, Chalmers University of Technology. Gothenburg. In Swedish.

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Articles in ISI-ranked journals (7)

Woxenius, J. (201X) Flexibility vs. specialisation in ro-ro shipping in the South Baltic Sea, accepted for publication in Transport, 2011-07-04.

Woxenius, J. Bergqvist, R. (2011) Comparing maritime containers and semi-trailers in the context of hinterland transport by rail, Journal of Transport Geography, 19(4), pp. 680-688.

Roso, V., Woxenius, J., Lumsden, K. (2009) The dry port concept – connecting seaports with their hinterland by rail, Journal of Transport Geography, 17(5), pp. 338-345.

Behrends, S., Lindholm, M., Woxenius, J. (2008) The impact of urban freight transport – a definition of sustainability from an actor’s perspective, Journal of Transportation Planning and Technology, 31(6), pp. 693-713.

Woxenius, J. (2007) A generic framework for transport network designs: applications and treatment in intermodal freight transport literature, Transport Reviews, 27(6), pp. 733-749.

Woxenius, J. (2006) Temporal elements in the spatial extension of production networks, Growth & Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy, 37(4), pp. 526-549.

Bärthel, F., Woxenius, J. (2004) Developing intermodal transport for small flows over short distances, Journal of Transportation Planning and Technology, 27(5), pp. 403-424.


Articles in other peer-reviewed journals (7)

Almotairi, B., Flodén, J., Stefansson, G., Woxenius, J. (2011) Information Flows Supporting Hinterland Transportation by Rail: Applications in Sweden, Research in TransportationEconomics, 33(1), pp. 15-24; Doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2011.08.003.

Bergqvist, R., Woxenius, J. (2011) Hinterland transport by rail – The story of Scandinavia and Port of Gothenburg, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 23(2), pp. 161–175.

Bergqvist, R., Falkemark, G., Woxenius, J. (2010) Establishing intermodal terminals, World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research, 3(3), pp. 285-302.

Sommar, R., Woxenius, J. (2007) Time perspectives on Intermodal transport of consolidated cargo, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 7(2), pp. 163-182.

Woxenius, J. (2007) Intermodal freight transport network designs and their implication for transhipment technologies, European Transport - International Journal of Transport Economics, Engineering and Law, Issue 35, April, pp. 27-45.

Ohnell, S., Woxenius, J. (2003) An industry analysis of express freight from a European railway perspective, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 33(8), pp. 735-751.

Woxenius, J., Sjöstedt, L. (2003) Logistics trends and their impact on European combined transport - services, traffic and industrial organisation, Logistik-management, 5(2), pp. 25-36.

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Peer-reviewed book chapters (3)

Woxenius, J. and Bärthel, F. (2008) Intermodal Road-Rail Transport in the European Union, In: Konings, R., H. Priemus and P. Nijkamp (Eds.), The Future of Intermodal Freight Transport, Concepts, Design and Implementation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 13-33.

Kreutzberger, E., Macharis, C., Woxenius, J. (2006) Intermodal Versus Unimodal Road Freight Transport - A Review of Comparisons of the External Costs. In: Jourquin, B., Rietveld, P., Westin, K. (Eds.) Transportation Economics - Towards Better Performance Systems, Routledge, New York, pp. 17-42.

Woxenius, J. (1997) Information Flows Along Integrated Transport Chains. In: Tilanus, C. B. (Ed.) Information Systems in Logistics and Transportation, Pergamon, Oxford, pp. 137-155.


Peer-reviewed conference articles (15) Olsson, J., Woxenius, J. (2011) Location of freight consolidation centres serving the city and its

surroundings, The seventh International Conference on City Logistics - Vision, technology and policy, Mallorca, 7-9 June.

Almotairi, B., Flodén, J., Stefansson, G., Woxenius, J. (2010) The effect of the organisational framework in the success of hinterland transport – An information perspective, the Dryport Conference, Edinburgh, 21–22 October.

Woxenius, J. (2010) Flexibility vs. specialisation in European short sea shipping, International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Annual Conference 2010, Lisbon, 7-9 July.

Woxenius, J., Bergqvist, R. (2009) Hinterland transport by rail – comparing the conditions for maritime containers and semi-trailers, IAME 2009, Copenhagen, 24-26 June.

Bergqvist, R., Woxenius, J. (2009) Hinterland transport by rail – The story of Scandinavia and Port of Gothenburg, The International Business Research Conference, Jacksonville, 13-14 February. Selected as one of the top-five articles for journal publication, see below.

Woxenius, J., Persson, J, Davidsson, P. (2007) Measures for increasing the loading space utilisation of intermodal line train systems, the 11th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Berkeley, 24-28 June.

Beavis, P. Black, J., McGill, I., Woxenius, J., Moore, S. (2007) Interface design for the coordination of container freight infrastructure with urban logistical services, the 11th WCTR, Berkeley, 24-28 June.

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Deliverables within EU-projects (13) Kehoe, J., Woxenius, J. (2010) Assessment of the impact of the application of new

sulphur limits to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic European Seas, SKEMA Short Study, Deliverable: D 4.4.2, SKEMA - Sustainable Knowledge Platform for the European Maritime and Logistics Industry, Restricted dissemination, Cork, Ireland, 38 pages + 11 pages in appendix.

Behrends, S., Flodén, J., Woxenius, J., Gadhia, H., Kotzab, H., Unseld, H., (2010) Novel rail transport services, Deliverable D12, FastRCargo - Fast Transhipment Equipment and Novel Methods for RailCargo in Europe. Gothenburg. 106 pages.

Bergqvist, R., Falkemark, G., Woxenius, J. (2007) Etablering av kombiterminaler(Establishing intermodal terminals), Meddelande 124, Division of Logistics and Transportation, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. 27 pages. In Swedish.

Ahlbäck, A., Norrman, J., Woxenius, J. (2006) Sections on transportation in: Hedenus, F., Larsson, A. (Eds.) Towards a “Smart Growth” Strategy for Sustainable Development, Report 3 from EPSD – European Panel on Sustainable Development, Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Gothenburg.

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Other essays and reports (12) Andersson, D., Woxenius, J., Flodén, J., Lammgård, C., Saxin, B. (2005)

Trafikslagsövergripande databas för godstransporter (Traffic mode generic database for freight transport) – a prestudy for SIKA - Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis/the Samgods group and The Swedish International Freight Association, SIKA, Stockholm, 74 pages. In Swedish.

Lindau, R., Woxenius, J., Edlund, P. (2004) Verkstadsindustrins logistik – en innovationssystemanalys (The logistics of the manufacturing industry - an innovation system analysis), report for VINNOVA. Also published as Meddelande 120, Department of Logistics and Transportation, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. 110 pages.

Woxenius, J., Sommar, R., Roso, V., Bärthel, F., Lumsden, K. (2003) Terminals as part of the Swedish transport system – an overview, report for the Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications. Also published as Meddelande 119, Department of Logistics and Transportation, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. 60 pages.

Woxenius, J. (2003) Utvecklingstrender för lastbärartransport med sjöfart och järnväg(Development trends regarding unit load transport by sea and rail), Report for Port of Gothenburg. Also published as Meddelande 118, Institutionen för logistik och transport, Gothenburg. 64 pages.

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The scientific publishing process 1

Select journalAdapt to journal scope and style

Use earlier articles as references

Add knowledge!

Select type of submissionNormal submission

Special issue call (often abstract first)

Selected after conference

SubmitCreate account or adapt to how the journal recevies articles

Wait…


The scientific publishing process 2

After reviewAccept the review for what it is

Do not get into a defensive argument!

Address all comments

ResubmissionAttach a letter describing the amendments

Wait again…

PublicationSubmit copyright transfer forms and, if needed, order printed copies

Be prepared for quick turnaround of proof

Wait ance more…

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