Traditionally, the focus of the RAE has been on "quality", seen as academic or scholarly excellence and assessed through the criteria of rigour, originality and significance, coupled with other indicators, such as academic esteem, viability of research environments, and research capacity [ 33].
This could occur as Australian Indigenous health publications are often poorly cited [ 22] and less likely to result in traditional measures of research esteem (e.g., international keynote presentations).
The publication of research in esteemed journals is recorded by the University and the Department of Higher Education and Technology of the Republic of South Africa.
The authors summarize surrogates for the quality of research work under the heading of esteem indicators, such as honorary doctorates and memberships of editorial boards of journals.
Positive self-esteem appears to buffer against NSSI, consistent with a body of research identifying self-image as being vital in NSSI and coping generally.
A large body of research shows that sports are associated with all sorts of benefits, like lower teenage pregnancy rates, better grades and higher self-esteem.
A great deal of research has explored the psychological effects that secrets have on their keepers stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, low self-esteem.
There is a considerable amount of research on such topics as embarrassment and behaviour in front of audiences, in which self-image and self-esteem have been assessed by various self-rating methods.
Even if this kind of research is plagued by the epistemological problems reported earlier, it seems clear that labeling may endanger self-esteem and then, doing worse than expected.
"They will be active, respected scientists, at universities that traditionally have not held teaching up to the same type of rewards and esteem" as doing research, says Peter Bruns, HHMI's vice president for grants and special programs.
