370
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Characteristics of the Most Productive U.S. Sociology Faculty and Departments: Institution Type, Gender, and Journal Concentration

&

References

  • Aaltojärvi, I., I. Arminen, O. Auranen, and H.-M. Pasanen. 2008. “Scientific Productivity, Web Visibility and Citation Patterns in Sixteen Nordic Sociology Departments.” Acta Sociologica 51 (1):5–22. doi: 10.1177/0001699307086815.
  • Altonji, J. and R. Blank. 1999. “Race and Gender in the Labor Market.” Pp. 3143–259 in Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3C, edited by O. Ashenfelter and D. Card. New York: Elsevier.
  • Arrow, K.J. 1973. “The Theory of Discrimination.” Pp. 3–33 in Discrimination in Labor Markets, edited by O. Ashenfelter and A. Rees. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
  • Australian Research Council. 2018. “Excellence in Research Australia.” Retrieved April 6, 2020. (https://www.arc.gov.au/excellence-research-australia).
  • Becker, G. 1957. The Economics of Discrimination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Berlinerblau, J. 2017. “Better College, Better Scholars, Right? Not So Much.” Chronicle of Higher Education Online, May 28. Retrieved April 6, 2020. (http://www.chronicle.com/article/better-college-better/240179).
  • Bjarnason, T. and I.D. Sigfusdottir. 2002. “Nordic Impact: Article Productivity and Citation Patterns in Sixteen Nordic Sociology Departments.” Acta sociologica 45 (4):253–67. doi: 10.1177/000169930204500401.
  • Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 2017. “Standard Listings: Basic Classification.” Retrieved December 1, 2017. (http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/standard.php#standard_basic2005_list).
  • Charles, K.K. and J. Guryan. 2008. “Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker’s The Economics of Discrimination.” Journal of Political Economy 116 (5):773–809. doi: 10.1086/593073.
  • Chubin, D. 1974. “Sociological Manpower and Womanpower: Sex Differences in Career Patterns of Two Cohorts of American Doctorate Sociologists.” The American Sociologist 9 (2):83–92.
  • Clemente, F. 1972. “Measuring Sociological Productivity: A Review and A Proposal.” The American Sociologist 7 (9):7–8.
  • Clemente, F. 1973. “Early Career Determinants of Research Productivity.” American Journal of Sociology 79 (2):409–19. doi: 10.1086/225553.
  • Clemente, F. and R.B. Sturgis. 1974. “Quality of Department of Doctoral Training and Research Productivity.” Sociology of Education 47 (2):287–99. doi: 10.2307/2112109.
  • Collins, T.A., C.A. Cooper, and H.G. Knotts. 2010. “Scholarly Productivity in Non-Ph.D. Departments.” PS: Political Science & Politics 43 (3):509–14.
  • Collyer, F.M. 2014. “Sociology, Sociologists and Core–Periphery Reflections.” Journal of Sociology 50 (3):252–68. doi: 10.1177/1440783312448687.
  • Creswell, J.W. 1985. Faculty Research Performance: Lessons from the Sciences and the Social Sciences. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report no. 4. Washington, DC: Association for the Study of Higher Education.
  • Cronin, B. 2001. “Hyperauthorship: A Postmodern Perversion or Evidence of A Structural Shift in Scholarly Communication Practices?” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 52 (7):558–69. doi: 10.1002/asi.1097.
  • Cronin, B., H. Snyder, and H. Atkins. 1997. “Comparative Citation Rankings of Authors in Monographic and Journal Literature: A Study of Sociology.” Journal of Documentation 53 (3):263–73. doi: 10.1108/EUM0000000007200.
  • Doering, R. 1972. “Publish or Perish: Book Productivity and Academic Rank at Twenty-Six Elite Universities.” The American Sociologist 7 (9):11–13.
  • Eckberg, D. and J. Marx. 2004. “The Mouse that Roared? Article Publishing in Undergraduate Sociology Programs.” The American Sociologist 35 (4):58–78. doi: 10.1007/s12108-004-1024-3.
  • Education University of Hong Kong. 2012. “Ranking List of Academic Book Publishers.” Retrieved April 6, 2020. (https://www.eduhk.hk/secstaffcorner/view.php?secid=50424).
  • Endersby, J.W. 1996. “Collaborative Research in the Social Sciences: Multiple Authorship and Publication Credit.” Social Science Quarterly 77 (2):375–92.
  • Frandsen, T.F. and J. Nicolaisen. 2010. “What Is in a Name? Credit Assignment Practices in Different Disciplines.” Journal of Informetrics 4 (4):608–17. doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2010.06.010.
  • Gläser, J. 2004. “Why are the Most Influential Books in Australian Sociology Not Necessarily the Most Highly Cited Ones?” Journal of Sociology 40 (3):261–82. doi: 10.1177/1440783304046370.
  • Glenn, N.D. and W. Villemez. 1970. “The Productivity of Sociologists at 45 American Universities.” The American Sociologist 5 (3):244–52.
  • Greenhow, C., B. Gleason, and K.B. Staudt Willet. 2019. “Social Scholarship Revisited: Changing Scholarly Practices in the Age of Social Media.” British Journal of Educational Technology 50 (3):987–1004. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12772.
  • Hagen, N.T. 2010. “Harmonic Publication and Citation Counting: Sharing Authorship Credit Equitably—Not Equally, Geometrically or Arithmetically.” Scientometrics 84 (3):785–93. doi: 10.1007/s11192-009-0129-4.
  • Hagen, N.T. 2013. “Harmonic Coauthor Credit: A Parsimonious Quantification of the Byline Hierarchy.” Journal of Informetrics 7 (4):784–91. doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.06.005.
  • Hagen, N.T. 2014a. “Counting and Comparing Publication Output with and without Equalizing and Inflationary Bias.” Journal of Informetrics 8 (2):310–17. doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2014.01.003.
  • Hagen, N.T. 2014b. “Reversing the Byline Hierarchy: The Effect of Equalizing Bias on the Accreditation of Primary, Secondary and Senior Authors.” Journal of Informetrics 8 (3):618–27. doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2014.05.003.
  • Hamilton, M. and R.A.W. Rhodes 2008. “Australian Political Science: Journal and Publisher Rankings.” Retrieved April 6, 2020. (https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33311795.pdf).
  • Hartley, J.E. and M.D. Robinson. 2001. “Sociology Research at Liberal Arts Colleges.” The American Sociologist 32 (3):60–72. doi: 10.1007/s12108-001-1028-1.
  • Hellerstein, J.K., D. Neumark, and K.R. Troske. 2002. “Market Forces and Sex Discrimination.” Journal of Human Resources 37 (2):353–80. doi: 10.2307/3069651.
  • Hermanowicz, J.C. 2016. “The Proliferation of Publishing: Economic Rationality and Ritualized Productivity in a Neoliberal Era.” The American Sociologist 47 (2–3):174–91. doi: 10.1007/s12108-015-9285-6.
  • Higher Education Funding Council for England. 2009. “The Research Excellence Framework: A Brief Guide to the Proposals.” Retrieved April 6, 2020. (https://www.ref.ac.uk/2014/media/ref/content/background/secondconsult/REFguide.pdf).
  • Holley, J.W. 1977. “Tenure and Research Productivity.” Research in Higher Education 6 (2):181–92. doi: 10.1007/BF00991419.
  • Hunter, L. and E. Leahey. 2008. “Collaborative Research in Sociology: Trends and Contributing Factors.” The American Sociologist 39 (4):290–306. doi: 10.1007/s12108-008-9042-1.
  • Jones, L.V., G. Lindzey, and P.E. Coggeshall, eds. 1982. An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Social & Behavioral Sciences. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
  • Joy, S. 2006. “What Should I Be Doing, and Where are They Doing It? Scholarly Productivity of Academic Psychologists.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 1 (4):346–64. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00020.x.
  • Kaba, A.J. 2015. “Contributors to the American Sociological Review, 2010.” Sociology Mind 5 (2):114–46. doi: 10.4236/sm.2015.52012.
  • Keith, B. and N. Babchuk. 1994. “A Longitudinal Assessment of Productivity in Prominent Sociology Journals and Departmental Prestige.” The American Sociologist 25 (4):4–27. doi: 10.1007/BF02691987.
  • Keith, B. and N. Babchuk. 1998. “The Quest for Institutional Recognition: A Longitudinal Analysis of Scholarly Productivity and Academic Prestige among Sociology Departments.” Social Forces 76 (4):1495–533. doi: 10.2307/3005843.
  • Keith, B., J.S. Layne, N. Babchuk, and K. Johnson. 2002. “The Context of Scientific Achievement: Sex Status, Organizational Environments, and the Timing of Publication on Scholarship Outcomes.” Social Forces 80 (4):1253–81. doi: 10.1353/sof.2002.0029.
  • Korom, P. 2020. “The Prestige Elite in Sociology: Toward a Collective Biography of the Most Cited Scholars (1970–2010).” Sociological Quarterly 61 (1):128–63. doi: 10.1080/00380253.2019.1581037.
  • Lang, J.M. 2016. “Why You Might Love Working at a Teaching College.” Chronicle of Higher Education Online, October 30. Retrieved April 6, 2020. (https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-You-Might-Love-Working-at/238204).
  • Larivière, V., V. Larivière, V Kiermer, C.J. MacCallum, M. McNutt, M. Patterson, B. Pulverer, S. Swaminathan, S. Taylor, and S. Curry. 2016. “A Simple Proposal for the Publication of Journal Citation Distributions.” Retrieved April 6, 2020. doi: 10.1101/062109.
  • Larsen, P.O. 2008. “The State of the Art in Publication Counting.” Scientometrics 77 (2):235–51. doi: 10.1007/s11192-007-1991-6.
  • Larson, R.F., M.L. Petrowsky, and J.S. Vandiver. 1972. “Journal Productivity of Ph.D. Sociologists.” The American Sociologist 7 (9):9–11.
  • Leahey, E. 2006. “Gender Differences in Productivity: Research Specialization as a Missing Link.” Gender & Society 20 (6):754–80. doi: 10.1177/0891243206293030.
  • Leahey, E., J.L. Crockett, and L.A. Hunter. 2008. “Gendered Academic Careers: Specializing for Success?” Social Forces 86 (3):1273–309. doi: 10.1353/sof.0.0018.
  • Leonard, W.M., II and R.L. Schmitt. 1974. “An American Sociological Association Meeting Index of Departmental ‘Quality’.” The American Sociologist 9 (1):40–43.
  • Lewis, J.S. 2000. “An Assessment of Publisher Quality by Political Science Librarians.” College and Research Libraries 61 (4):313–23. doi: 10.5860/crl.61.4.313.
  • Light, R. 2013. “Gender Inequality and the Structure of Occupational Identity: The Case of Elite Sociological Publication.” Pp. 239–68 in Networks, Work and Inequality, edited by S. McDonald. Bingley, UK: Emerald,
  • Ling, M.H.T., et al. 2012. “Publishing in Different Journals Vs. Publishing in Similar Journals.” ResearchGate. Retrieved September 16, 2019. (https://www.researchgate.net/post/Publishing_in_different_journals_vs_Publishing_in_similar_journals).
  • Logan, J.R. 1988. “Producing Sociology: Time Trends in Authorship of Journal Articles, 1975–1986.” The American Sociologist 19 (2):167–80. doi: 10.1007/BF02691810.
  • Lozano, G.A., V. Larivière, and Y. Gingras. 2012. “The Weakening Relationship between the Impact Factor and Papers’ Citations in the Digital Age.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63 (11):2140–45. doi: 10.1002/asi.22731.
  • McNamee, S.J., C.L. Willis, and A.M. Rotchford. 1990. “Gender Differences in Patterns of Publication in Leading Sociology Journals, 1960–1985.” The American Sociologist 21 (2):99–115. doi: 10.1007/BF02692855.
  • MedCalc. 2018. “Free Statistical Calculators.” Retrieved September 16, 2019. (https://www.medcalc.org/calc/).
  • Moksony, F., R. Hegedűs, and M. Császár. 2014. “Rankings, Research Styles, and Publication Cultures: A Study of American Sociology Departments.” Scientometrics 101 (3):1715–29. doi: 10.1007/s11192-013-1218-y.
  • Monk-Turner, E. and R. Fogerty. 2010. “Chilly Environments, Stratification, and Productivity Differences.” The American Sociologist 41 (1):3–18. doi: 10.1007/s12108-009-9083-0.
  • Najman, J.M. and B. Hewitt. 2003. “The Validity of Publication and Citation Counts for Sociology and Other Selected Disciplines.” Journal of Sociology 39 (1):62–80. doi: 10.1177/144078330303900106.
  • Nakhaie, M.R. 2002. “Gender Differences in Publication among University Professors in Canada.” Canadian Review of Sociology 39 (2):151–79. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-618X.2002.tb00615.x.
  • Nakhaie, M.R. 2007. “Universalism, Ascription and Academic Rank: Canadian Professors, 1987–2000.” Canadian Review of Sociology 44 (3):361–86. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-618X.2007.tb01190.x.
  • National Center for Education Statistics. 2017. “IPEDS Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System: Compare Institutions, 2016–17.” Retrieved December 1, 2017. (https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data).
  • Nederhof, A.J. 2008. “Policy Impact of Bibliometric Rankings of Research Performance of Departments and Individuals in Economics.” Scientometrics 74 (1):163–74. doi: 10.1007/s11192-008-0109-0.
  • Nock, D.A. 2001. “Careers in Print: Canadian Sociological Books and Their Wider Impact, 1975–1992.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 26 (3):469–85. doi: 10.2307/3341897.
  • O’Meara, K. and A. Bloomgarden. 2011. “The Pursuit of Prestige: The Experience of Institutional Striving from a Faculty Perspective.” Journal of the Professoriate 4 (1):39–73.
  • Oromaner, M. 1972. “The Structure of Influence in Contemporary Academic Sociology.” The American Sociologist 7 (5):11–13.
  • Oromaner, M. 1973. “Productivity and Recognition of Sociology Departments.” Sociological Focus 6 (1):83–89. doi: 10.1080/00380237.1973.10570839.
  • Oromaner, M. 1980. “Influentials in Sociological Textbooks and Journals, 1955 and 1970.” The American Sociologist 15 (3):169–74.
  • Ostriker, J.P., C.V. Kuh, and J.A. Voytuk, eds. 2011. A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Retrieved December 1, 2017. (https://www.nap.edu/download/12994).
  • Oswald, A. 2009. “REF Should Stay Out of the Game.” The Independent, November 26. Retrieved April 6, 2020. (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/andrew-oswald-ref-should-stay-out-of-the-game-1827306.html).
  • Pager, D. 2016. “Are Firms that Discriminate More Likely to Go Out of Business?” Sociological Science 3 (36):849–59. doi: 10.15195/v3.a36.
  • Parkin, F. 1979. Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Perrucci, R., C. Perrucci, and M. Subramaniam. 2019. “Publications in Four Sociology Journals, 1960–2010: The Role of Discipline Demographics and Journal Mission.” Sociological Focus 52 (3):171–85. doi: 10.1080/00380237.2019.1624232.
  • Phelan, T.J. 2000. “Bibliometrics and the Evaluation of Australian Sociology.” Journal of Sociology 36 (3):345–63. doi: 10.1177/144078330003600305.
  • Põder, E. 2010. “Let’s Correct That Small Mistake.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61 (12):2593–94. doi: 10.1002/asi.21438.
  • Price, D.J. 1981. “Multiple Authorship.” Science 212 (4498):986. doi: 10.1126/science.212.4498.986-a.
  • Rau, W. and W.M. Leonard II. 1990. “Evaluating Ph.D. Sociology Programs: Theoretical, Methodological and Policy Implications.” The American Sociologist 21 (3):232–56. doi: 10.1007/BF02692424.
  • Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment. 2017. “WASS-SENSE Book Publishers Ranking List 2017.” Retrieved April 6, 2020. (http://www.sense.nl/organisation/documentation).
  • Roche, T. and D.L. Smith. 1978. “Frequency of Citations as Criterion for the Ranking of Departments, Journals, and Individuals.” Sociological Inquiry 48 (1):49–57. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1978.tb00809.x.
  • Sax, L.J., L.S. Hagedorn, M. Arredondo, and F.A. DiCrisi III. 2002. “Faculty Research Productivity: Exploring the Role of Gender and Family-Related Factors.” Research in Higher Education 43 (4):423–46. doi: 10.1023/A:1015575616285.
  • Seglen, P.O. 1994. “Causal Relationship between Article Citedness and Journal Impact.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 45 (1):1–11. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199401)45:1<1::AID-ASI1>3.0.CO;2-Y.
  • Seglen, P.O. 1997. “Why the Impact Factor of Journals Should Not Be Used for Evaluating Research.” BMJ 314 (7079):498–513. doi: 10.1136/bmj.314.7079.497.
  • ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. 2018. “ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, 2018—Sociology.” Retrieved September 16, 2019. (http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/sociology.html).
  • Shepherd, J. 2009. “Humanities Research Threatened by Demands for ‘Economic Impact’.” The Guardian, October 12. Retrieved April 6, 2020. (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/oct/13/research-funding-economic-impact-humanities).
  • Smith, D.L., T. Roche, and W. Snizek. 1980. “Quality of Graduate Productivity in Sociology as Measured by the Citation Index: A Longitudinal Overview.” Research in Higher Education 13 (4):343–52. doi: 10.1007/BF00976253.
  • Smith, S.D. 2004. “Is an Article in a Top Journal a Top Article?” Financial Management 33 (4):133–49.
  • Stack, S. 1994a. “An Analysis of the Impacts of Books and Journal Articles.” International Review Of Modern Sociology 24 (2):119–25.
  • Stack, S. 1994b. “The Class of 1976: Publication and Type of Location.” Sociological Spectrum 14 (3):293–98. doi: 10.1080/02732173.1994.9982069.
  • Stack, S. 1994c. “The Effects of Gender on Publishing: The Case of Sociology.” Sociological Focus 27 (1):81–83. doi: 10.1080/00380237.1994.10571011.
  • Stack, S. 2002. “Gender and Scholarly Productivity: 1970–2000.” Sociological Focus 35 (3):285–96. doi: 10.1080/00380237.2002.10570704.
  • Stack, S. 2004. “Gender, Children and Research Productivity.” Research in Higher Education 45 (8):891–920. doi: 10.1007/s11162-004-5953-z.
  • Sturgis, R.B. and F. Clemente. 1973. “The Productivity of Graduates of 50 Sociology Departments.” The American Sociologist 8 (4):169–80.
  • Swygart-Hobaugh, A.J. 2004. “A Citation Analysis of the Quantitative/Qualitative Methods Debate’s Reflection in Sociology Research: Implications for Library Collection Development.” Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 28 (2):180–95.
  • Tausch, A. 2011. “On the Global Impact of Selected Social-Policy Publishers in More than 100 Countries.” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42 (4):476–513. doi: 10.3138/jsp.42.4.476.
  • Tien, F.F. 2007. “To What Degree Does the Promotion System Reward Faculty Research Productivity?” British Journal of Sociology of Education 28 (1):105–23. doi: 10.1080/01425690600996741.
  • U.K. Research and Innovation. 2020. “REF 2021: Research Excellence Framework.” Retrieved April 6, 2020. (https://www.ref.ac.uk/).
  • U.S. News & World Report. 2017a. “National Liberal Arts Colleges, 2017.” Retrieved December 1, 2017. No longer available online.
  • U.S. News & World Report. 2017b. “Sociology, 2017.” Retrieved December 1, 2017. (https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools/sociology-rankings).
  • Walters, W.H. and E.I. Wilder. 2015. “Worldwide Contributors to the Literature of Library and Information Science: Top Authors, 2007–2012.” Scientometrics 103 (1):301–27. doi: 10.1007/s11192-014-1519-9.
  • Walters, W.H. and E.I. Wilder. 2016. “Disciplinary, National, and Departmental Contributions to the Literature of Library and Information Science, 2007–2012.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67 (6):1487–506. doi: 10.1002/asi.23448.
  • Warren, J.R. 2019. “How Much Do You Have to Publish to Get a Job in a Top Sociology Department? or to Get Tenure? Trends over a Generation.” Sociological Science 6 (7):172–96. doi: 10.15195/v6.a7.
  • Weller, M. 2011. The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Wilder, E.I. and W.H. Walters. 2019. “Quantifying Scholarly Output: Contribution Studies and Productivity Studies in Sociology since 1970.” The American Sociologist 50 (3):430–36. doi: 10.1007/s12108-018-9400-6.
  • Wilder, E.I. and W.H. Walters. 2020. “Publishing Productivity of Sociologists at American Colleges and Universities: Institution Type, Gender, and Other Correlates of Book and Article Counts.” Sociological Perspectives 63 (2):249–75. doi: 10.1177/0731121419874079.
  • Zuccala, A., R. Guns, R. Cornacchia, and R. Bod. 2015. “Can We Rank Scholarly Book Publishers? A Bibliometric Experiment with the Field of History.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 66 (7):1333–47. doi: 10.1002/asi.23267.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.