DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2014.v01i11.011

Pages: 598-605

This study investigates the influence of native Malaysian academic staffs’ characteristics on the research performance of University of Malaya (UM). The research performance is assessed by bibliometrics indicator, namely the number of publications, which is collected from Google Scholar. The academic staffs’ characteristics in this study comprise of gender, ethnicity, academic position and academic age. The results show that the percentage of publications by male academic staffs are significantly more than that of by female academic staffs. Moreover, academic staffs who pose higher academic position or have longer years since awarded PhD are more likely to have higher number of publications. Ethnicity has also a significant influence on the research performance. Cross-tabulations and correspondence analysis are used to determine the mentioned objectives.