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SRI LANKAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN A CRISIS CONTEXT: COVID-19 AS A CASE STUDY
Ramakrishnan Vivek, School of Business, Sri Lanka Technological Campus, Sri Lanka. : Thuaraiyappah Pratheepan, University Library Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka
Pages: 1-11 | First Published: 05 Jun 2021
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ABSTRACT

Most countries worldwide temporarily closed the educational institutions and universities to contain the spread of the pandemic of COVID 19. University authorities and policymakers around the globe have struggled to keep their faces with this challenging crisis to ensure the fair continuity of academic activities. As a developing country, the Sri Lankan higher education system has also been facing many challenges. Identifying these challenges is an essential step towards setting goals for a better future in the higher education system of Sri Lanka. Accordingly, the current study has been undertaken in order to identify the challenges in the university education system due to the COVID 19 outbreak in the country. The education sector has faced a considerable drawback in the country since the possibility of opening universities and schools has become a question. The study carried out using thematic analysis with the selected literature and the published reports. Many scholars have found that the internet facilities, infrastructure facilities, and online teaching and language difficulties have become problematic for the students. Some subjects need practical and impossible to teach using online platforms.

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SCIENTOMETRIC OVERVIEW OF THE FINANCIAL RESEARCH: AN ANALYSIS OF THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE FROM 1989-2020
T. Pratheepan, The Library, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka : K. L. Gamini, Finance Division, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka
Pages: 21-29 | First Published: 05 Jun 2021
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ABSTRACT

The study focuses on 3189 research titles published in the Journal of Finance (JF) during 1989-2020. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the whole collection of scientific works that appeared in the Journal of Finance published by the American Finance Association. The bibliographic and citation data for this study were acquired from the Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection. The study was carried out using scientometric indicators with the support of R-tool and VOS viewer science mapping software. The analysis provides a brief overview of the main factors such as publication evolution, most productive authors, citation structure, author collaboration network, co citation analysis, most productive countries, and multiple correspondence analysis for keyword plus used in the JF. The journal, on average, published about 99.65 research documents per year. Forty countries contributed to the scientific documents. The United States of America found to be the high performing country in the JF. It was observed that some Asian and European higher education institutions are performing well for the last two years. The first three countries (USA: 3291, UK:263 and Canada: 157) are responsible for 57.7%, the first fifteen countries for 65.9%, and the first 20 countries for 81.5% of the total records 3189. There are 734 authors of single-authored papers found, and they contributed to 947 single-authored documents—a total of 2302 keyword plus identified in the journals.

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