Change at the State University of Haiti: The Executive Council and Its Scientific Record Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century

The article looks at the new executive council of the State University of Haiti (UEH), elected on March 9, 2025 for a four-year term to 2029: a rector, a vice-rector for academic affairs and a vice-rector for research. The authors review the members' publications, citations and co-authorships in Google Scholar, Scopus and ResearchGate, and set aside Web of Science and Academia.edu because none of the members' publications appeared there. They state that triangulation with interviews and CVs was attempted without success.

The counts differ widely among the three members, and the authors read this as a disparity in scientific involvement that calls for an institutional research policy. The article sets the review in the university's difficulties: funds that the authors call largely insufficient, the lack of an organic law, and damage to infrastructure in the January 12, 2010 earthquake. It proposes 23 avenues of action, among them financial autonomy, a research fund, an institutional database, a single diploma, a Moodle platform, institutional email addresses, graduate programs at the main sites and an organic law for the university.