Department Rankings: An Alternative Approach

Miller, Arthur H.; Tien, Charles; Peebler, Andrew A.

doi:10.1017/s1049096500045728

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“…An extensive bibliography on the topic is available from the authors upon request. ell 1998;Garand and Graddy 1999;McCormick and Bernick 1982;McCormick and Rice 2001;Miller, Tien, and Peebler 1996).…”

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Faculty Research Productivity: Why Do Some of Our Colleagues Publish More than Others?

Hesli¹,

Lee

2011

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The justification for studying faculty research productivity is that it affects individual advancement and reputation within academe, as well as departmental and institutional prestige (Creamer 1998, iii). Publication records are an important factor in faculty performance evaluations, research grant awards, and promotion and salary decisions. The phrase “publish or perish” encapsulates the importance of research productivity to academic careers. In addition, questions are sometimes raised about whether an individual's status as a minority within academia (e.g., being a member of an underrepresented ethnic or racial group or being female in a male-dominated profession) affects his or her ability to publish or likelihood of publishing (Cole and Zuckerman 1984; Bellas and Toutkoushian 1999). Finally, most previous work that tackles the productivity causality puzzle comes from disciplines other than political science. Thus, one of the purposes of this report is to explore whether the existing findings about research productivity in other disciplines apply equally well to research productivity in political science.

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Faculty Research Productivity: Why Do Some of Our Colleagues Publish More than Others?

Hesli¹,

Lee

2011

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“…Miller, Tien, and Peebler (1996) Furthermore, most indices only include the top 20 to 50 institutions, relegating the others to a common lower ranking. Only the Hix index examined all political science programs (including PUIs) and used 63 international political science journals to measure research productivity.…”

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Training the Next Generation of Teaching Professors: A Comparative Study of Ph.D. Programs in Political Science

Ishiyama

Miles

Balarezo

2010

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In this article, we investigate the graduate curricula of political science programs and 122 Ph.D.-granting political science programs in the United States and how they seek to prepare political science teachers.We first investigate whether the department offers a dedicated political science course at the graduate level on college teaching, and whether the presence of this class correlates with the size of the department, the size of the university, the ranking of the department, and so on. We find that whether a program offers a graduate course on teaching is inversely related to the research productivity of a department, and that departments at public institutions are more likely to offer such courses than are departments at private institutions. Second, we conduct content analysis of a sample of syllabi from departments that offer such courses to ascertain the kinds of topics that are covered. Finally, we briefly describe some model programs that seek to prepare graduate students for teaching careers that integrate graduate student teacher training throughout the Ph.D. program.I n this article, we investigate the graduate curriculum of political science programs across 122 Ph.D.-granting political science programs in the United States and examine whether the programs offer a graduate course on teaching political science. Little or no systematic work has been conducted that investigates the proportion of Ph.D. programs that overtly prepare their graduates for teaching in the profession. In conducting such an examination, we first investigate whether the department offers a dedicated course at the graduate level on college teaching, and whether this offering correlates with the size of the department, the size of the university, and the ranking of the department, among other factors. Second, we conduct a content analysis of a sample of syllabi from departments that offer such courses to ascertain the kinds of topics that are covered. Finally, we briefly describe some model programs that seek to prepare graduate students for teaching careers that integrate graduate student teacher training throughout the Ph.D. program. This project purports to fill an important gap in our understanding of how our discipline as a whole trains future political science teachers. LITERATUREOver the years, there has been an increasing call to improve the quality of graduate education in the social sciences. In particular, many studies have indicated that in the social sciences, graduate programs have failed to adequately prepare doctoral students for the changing character of higher education, particularly in terms of teacher training for careers at institutions that emphasize undergraduate teaching. Indeed, there is considerable evidence that most available faculty positions are located at institutions that primarily focus on teaching. T h e P r o f e s s i o n .. ......................................................................................................................................................................

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“…This research fits within the orbit of FONDECYT's Project All caveats apply. 2 Ballard and Mitchell (1998), Garand and Graddy (1999), Hix (2004), Jackman and Siverson (1996), Katz and Eagles (1996), Lowry and Silver (1996), McCormick and Rice (2001), Miller et al (1996), Schmitter (2002, Welch and Hibbing (1983), Giles and Garand (2007). 3 For a general overview, see Altman (2005).…”

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Where is Knowledge Generated? On the Productivity and Impact of Political Science Departments in Latin America

Altman

2012

Eur Polit Sci

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Clear rules that encourage meritocracy, and that include the evaluation of scholarly productivity, are slowly and unevenly taking hold in academic life in Latin America. While some countries have official rankings of political science departments, others rely only on informal assessments. In a third set of countries, we cannot even consider the competition because the market is dominated by a state monopoly. This article provides a first, systematic study of scientific productivity and concomitant impact in more than twenty departments of Political Science and International Relations in the region. I show that scholars' productivity is intimately related to where they pursued graduate studies, what subfield of research they work on, and the explicit adoption of rules that encourage meritocracy and academic careerism.

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Department Rankings: An Alternative Approach

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

Faculty Research Productivity: Why Do Some of Our Colleagues Publish More than Others?

Faculty Research Productivity: Why Do Some of Our Colleagues Publish More than Others?

Training the Next Generation of Teaching Professors: A Comparative Study of Ph.D. Programs in Political Science

Where is Knowledge Generated? On the Productivity and Impact of Political Science Departments in Latin America

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