Ranking the Inhibitors of Scientific Production in University of Tabriz: The Viewpoint of Academic Staff

One of the important factors in the development of countries is scientific production and turning science into wealth by Universities. Investigating and identifying the problems and barriers of scientific production of universities is very important. The purpose of this research is to investigate the barriers of scientific production from the viewpoint of faculty members the University of Tabriz. In this cross-sectional study, 250 faculty members from the University of Tabriz were taught in the first semester of the academic year of 2016-2017 selected by simple random sampling. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with 81 items with a five-point Likert scale. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by the experts and reliability by Cronbach's alpha, which was 0.82. Data were analyzed using SPSS 25 and one-sample T-test and Friedman test. The results of this study showed that the factors such as curriculum and content, publishing scientific findings, organizational-managerial barriers, faculty members issues, teaching methods, nature of research, research tools, the connection of scientific production with society and industry, deficiency of facilities and opportunities and Over-organizational barriers to inhibiting scientific production. Among these factors, the over- organizational factor has the highest rank and the content and curriculum have the least rank in hindering scientific production. Given the high contribution of the over- organizational factor to barriers to scientific production, it can be said that in order to establish an effective transformation in the scientific production, a systemic view of the interrelationship between the various economic, political, cultural and social parts is essential.