The hierarchical status of international academic awards in social sciences

Highly prestigious international academic awards and their impact on university rankings

“…2. Jiang and Liu (2018). They surveyed both 2,228 chairpersons and deans of units in eight social sciences fields from 349 top-ranked universities as well as 563 highly cited social science researchers for the years 2001, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.…”

“…For the current study, we adopted the award ratings generated in the studies by Jiang and Liu (2018) and Zheng and Liu (2015). As mentioned earlier, these two studies surveyed hundreds of domain experts, asking them to evaluate the relative reputations of awards they were familiar with as compared to the Nobel Prizes.…”

“…Respectively, the five levels of reputation represent whether a respondent considers a given award as "not important," "somewhat important," "important," "very important," and having "the same importance" as the Nobel Prize, which as the benchmark award has a reputation at the "highest" level. Of the 100 awards identified in the current study, 81 had ratings provided in the Jiang and Liu (2018) and Zheng and Liu (2015) studies, which we used here. The average prestige rate of those awards found exclusively via the checklist method or the HCRs method was 0.51, and those found via both of these methods was 0.64.…”

“…The increasing number of awards worldwide and their merit in research assessment and funding decisions necessitates a standard list of the most prominent international academic awards (Jiang & Liu, 2018;Ma & Uzzi, 2018). Such a list would be instrumental in identifying, characterizing, and differentiating the academic and research excellence of authors, centers, institutes, schools, universities, and countries.…”

Avoiding Conflicts of Interest in Awards: Assessing the Availability of Conflicts of Interest Statements of Psychological Societies

“…COI statements are essential, considering that academic awards are important for both the advancement of individual careers (for a detailed discussion, see Zheng & Liu, 2015), selection for competitive grants, and the evaluation of academic performance of individual researchers, research units, and academic institutions (see Jiang & Liu, 2018). This has given rise to discussions on potential biases in the handing out of awards.…”