Abstract During the last two decades or so we have witnessed unprecedented growth and expansion in higher education not only in the high income countries but in middle income and low income countries as well, Pakistan being no exception. In 2002 a new apex body, Higher Education Commission was established to manage affairs of higher education which adopted measures to improve the quality of higher education in the country. The HEC adopted a new framework and policy towards higher education and made strenuous efforts not only to bring quantitative expansion but to improve the quality of higher education in the country as well. Consequently, the academic community has witnessed an unprecedented expansion in higher education in terms of number of higher education institutions and its enrolment. One of the goals of Higher Education Commission was to develop research culture within the country and enhance research productivity of the universities and higher education institutions to help achieve the objectives of knowledge economy. This paper attempts to analyse the available data to assess the research productivity of Pakistani institutions of higher education, trends over the last decade or so in the number of articles produced and their citation index and to see what factors have contributed towards increasing the number of research articles, enhancing the visibility of research produced by Pakistani universities and identifying the most productive institutions in this regard. Results of the study may help in framing a policy and developing a strategy increase the research productivity of Pakistani institutions of higher education and improving its visibility and impact.

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促进研究生产率和可见性的因素：以巴基斯坦为例

摘要在过去的大约二十年中，我们不仅在高收入国家而且在中等收入和低收入国家也目睹了高等教育的空前增长和扩展，巴基斯坦也不例外。2002年，成立了一个新的最高机构高等教育委员会，负责管理高等教育事务，并采取了提高该国高等教育质量的措施。高等教育委员会采用了新的高等教育框架和政策，并做出了不懈的努力，不仅带来了数量上的扩大，而且还提高了该国的高等教育质量。因此，就高等教育机构的数量及其招生而言，学术界目睹了高等教育的空前发展。高等教育委员会的目标之一是在国内发展研究文化，提高大学和高等教育机构的研究生产率，以帮助实现知识经济的目标。本文试图分析可用数据，以评估巴基斯坦高等教育机构的研究生产力，过去十年左右的趋势，所产生的文章数量及其引文索引，并查看哪些因素对增加研究数量做出了贡献文章，提高了巴基斯坦大学开展的研究的知名度，并确定了这方面效率最高的机构。