Social Networks in Political Science: Hiring and
                                Placement of Ph.D.s, 1960–2002

Fowler, James H.; Grofman, Bernard; Masuoka, Natalie

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“…An individual seeking to earn a doctorate in Communication and a position at a research university would do well to be admitted to a high profile program whose faculty members publish routinely in the field's academic journals. In many ways, these current data and data from Barnett et al (2010) mirror findings in the other social sciences (e.g., Burris 2004;Fowler, Grofman, & Masuoka 2007;Masuoka, Grofman, & Feld 2007) that indicate the handful of programs at the top are entrenched with one another in terms of the hiring network and top programs often hire their own graduates over time.…”

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Predicting faculty job centrality in communication

2010

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Data from 1,581 faculty members affiliated with 98 doctoral-granting Communication programs in the United States were analyzed to determine normative publication rates and predictors of position centrality in the faculty hiring network. The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS) database was used to measure publication frequency in refereed journals. Position centrality was measured using a Communication program's relative position in the hiring network as established by Barnett, Danowski, Feeley, and Stalker (2010). The average publication frequencies by academic rank were as follows: assistant professors averaged 2.29 articles (N = 441, SD = 3.29); associate professors averaged 6.69 articles (N = 497, SD = 5.77); professors averaged 10.92 articles (N = 542, SD = 12.09). Results from multiple regression analyses indicate the number of publications for faculty members and position centrality of where one earned his or her doctoral degree significantly predicted current position centrality. Publication numbers for one's advisor and year of earned doctorate did not emerge as significant predictors of position centrality.

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Predicting faculty job centrality in communication

2010

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“…6, No. 2;2013 2008; Dolan et al, 1997;Erne, 2007, p. 307;Fowler et al, 2007;Garand & Graddy, 1999;Hix, 2004;Ishiyama, 2010;Kaba, 2011c;Katz & Eagles, 1996;Lopez, 2003;Mann, 1998;Masuoka et al, 2007ab;McCormick & Rice, 2001;Oprisko, 2012;Schmidt & Chingos, 2007;Sigelman, 2006). In a study entitled "Demographics and Publication Productivity of Ivy League Political Science Professors: Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Yale," finds that as of October 2005: "Of the 198 professors for whom data for university of graduation were available, 102 (51.5%) are from institutions in the Northeast and 39 (20%) are from the West…" (Note 3) According to Masuoka et al (2007b): "… in the early decades of the discipline, political science Ph.D. production was largely confined to institutions located in the Northeast and Midwest.…”

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“…Figure 1 of the study by Fowler et al (2007): "… reveals the extent to which there is an apparent core-periphery structure, with a density of ties in the center of the graph around the political science departments at Harvard, Chicago, and Columbia, with further strong ties to departments such as Yale, Berkeley, and Michigan, and then to departments such as Stanford, Princeton, Wisconsin, Northwestern, UCLA, Cornell, and Indiana." (p. 731).…”

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Profile of Contributors to the American Political Science Review, 2010

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2013

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This study examines the profile of contributors of full-length articles to the American Political Science Review (APSR) in 2010. Of the 79 different contributors, almost 9 (86.1%) out of every 10 are men. Whites accounted for over 9 (93.7%) out of every 10 contributors. Full professors accounted for 35%, the highest rate, with assistant professors accounting for 31 percent. Yale University, Harvard University, University of Illinois-Champaign, Florida State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California-San Diego, and the University of Chicago, all employ 3 or more of these contributors. Almost 94% of the contributors have a Ph.D. Almost 89% of the contributors earned their terminal or highest degrees in political science/government. Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, the University of California-Berkeley, and Duke University, all conferred 4 or more terminal or highest degrees to these contributors. The study presents explanations for these results, focusing on the underrepresentation of women and minorities.Keywords: human progress, gender, race, university rankings, endowments, elitism IntroductionBy 2013, among the three sister social science disciplines of economics, political science and sociology, political science is now second to economics in terms of the total number of scholarly publications examining various aspects of their disciplines. A substantial proportion of these scholarly articles either focus only on the American Political Science Review (APSR) or along with other political science journals, or comparison of APSR with the top journals in economics, sociology and other journals in and outside of the social sciences. With its first issue published in 1906, the APSR has become the discipline's top ranked journal and one of the top ranked journals in and outside of the social sciences. Others have claimed that the APSR is the top ranked political science journal in the world. Scholars who publish in the APSR can be employed at the top ranked colleges and universities not just in the United States, but also the world. They can also get promoted and have the opportunity to earn higher salaries and benefits. They are among the scholars who get very large sums of research grants from governments or foundations. They have substantial influence over the U.S. federal government and other governments in the world. The APSR like the top economics journal in the U.S., the American Economic Review (AER) are known as international journals, which means that students and scholars, policy makers and other elites in the U.S. and abroad tend to read them and the authors that publish in them are from all over the world. So once one publish an article in the APSR, he or she can become internationally known, which benefits the institutions that employ them (Ballard & Mitchell, 1998;Breuning & Sanders, 2007;De Rond & Miller, 2005;Evans & Moulder, 2011;Finifter, 1998;Fisher et al., 1998;Garand et al., 2009;Garand & Graddy, 1999;Garand & G...

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“…A number of studies have employed faculty hiring data to investigate disciplinary characteristics, such as those on sociology (Hanneman 2001), political science (Fowler et al 2007), economics (Amir and Knauff 2008), communication (Barnett et al 2010), law (Katz et al 2011), and mathematics (Myers et al 2011).…”

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Understanding the evolving academic landscape of library and information science through faculty hiring data

2016

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Using a 40-year (from 1975 to 2015) hiring dataset of 642 library and Information science (LIS) faculty members from 44 US universities, this research reveals the disciplinary characteristics of LIS through several key aspects including gender, rank, country, university, major, and research area. Results show that genders and ranks among LIS faculty members are evenly distributed; geographically, more than 90 % of LIS faculty members received doctoral degrees in the US; meanwhile, 60 % of LIS faculty received Ph.D. in LIS, followed by Computer Science and Education; in regards to research interests, Human-Computer interaction, Digital Librarianship, Knowledge Organization and Management, and Information Behavior are the most popular research areas among LIS faculty members. Through a series of dynamic analyses, this study shows that the educational background of LIS faculty members is becoming increasingly diverse; in addition, research areas such as Human-Computer interaction, Social Network Analysis, Services for Children and Youth, Information Literacy, Information Ethics and Policy, and Data and Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning have received an increasing popularity. Predictive analyses are performed to discover trends on majors and research areas. Results show that the growth rate of LIS faculty members is linearly distributed. In addition, among faculty member's Ph.D. majors, the share of LIS is decreasing while that the share of Computer Science is growing; among faculty members' research areas, the share of Human-Computer interaction is on the rise.

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Social Networks in Political Science: Hiring and Placement of Ph.D.s, 1960–2002

Abstract: S ocial scientists have long been interested in how academic disciplines are organized~Ben-

Cited by 40 publications

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Predicting faculty job centrality in communication

Predicting faculty job centrality in communication

Profile of Contributors to the American Political Science Review, 2010

Understanding the evolving academic landscape of library and information science through faculty hiring data

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