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Núñez-Acosta A, Sánchez-García J Y, Ramirez-Nafarrate A. (2024). Factors Affecting Researchers’ Incentive Preferences: A Cross Sectional Study of Private Universities in Mexico. johepal. 5(3), 113-132. doi:10.61186/johepal.5.3.113
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Incentives to scientific products have become an important tool to increase research productivity in universities around the world, usually through financial incentives policies aimed to foster publications or citations. In this paper, we study the preferences of researchers regarding research incentives in Mexican private universities. Through statistical methods, including z-tests for differences in proportions and correlation tests, we analyzed the results of a survey applied to researchers of business and engineering areas. Results suggest that demographic aspects like age, rather than salary range and years of experience, influence researcher’s incentive preferences, and that non-financial incentives are significant to young researchers. We also find that timing for receiving incentives is a significant factor that might drive researchers’ decisions. This study contributes to identifying the right incentives for researchers, considering that in Mexico these incentive programs are entirely financed by universities. The relevance of this research is that it allows policymakers to design comprehensive research policies including not only university research goals, but also researchers’ preferences to ensure their commitment and motivation.
Keywords: Financial Incentives, Non-Financial Incentives, Delay-Reward, Reward Schemes, Research Policy
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Received: 2024/05/10 | Accepted: 2024/09/13 | Published: 2024/09/30
Received: 2024/05/10 | Accepted: 2024/09/13 | Published: 2024/09/30
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