1. When globalization meets localization: The Controversial Impact of SCI/SSCI on Taiwan’s Academe Chuing Prudence CHOU Professor, Department of Education National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan E-mail: iaezcpc2007@gmail.comiaezcpc2007@gmail.com Website: http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~iaezcpc/English%20inde x.htm

2. It is found that the introduction of a new system rewarding SSCI and SCI publication as sole performance criteria has crippled the status of faculty in Humanities and Social Sciences in Taiwan since 2005. Junior faculty in social sciences and humanity encounter even more barriers in promotion and publication.

3. This paper intends to examine the current status of faculty in Taiwan with an emphasis on the introduction of new system which demands faculty SSCI and SCI publication as one of the sole promotion criteria.

4. The impact the world-class universities competition The pressure for resources after the massification of higher education since the mid-1990s The neo-liberal ideology

5. The great experiment of the SCI/SSCI Competition The rule of games Publish or perish Dilemma between research and teaching Who was caught in-between? Who benefits? Who is in great dispair

6. SWOTS of SCI/SSCI in Taiwan Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat Strategy

7. The on-line petition against the over-emphasis of SCI/SSCI What? Who? When? Where? How?

8. No Way Out? Quantity VS. Quality Social Sciences/Humanities VS. Natural Sciences Top ranking universities VS. General Universities Public VS. Private Researchers VS. Lecturers Flexible Salary vs. Institutional fixed salary

9. An overall review of the SCI/SSCI in Taiwan What will be next? A long battle to go?