New Data on the Publishing Productivity of American Sociologists

Name: New Data on the Publishing Productivity of American Sociologists
Published: 2020-06-12
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Esther Isabelle Wilder, Lehman College, The City University of New York; William H. Walters, Manhattan College

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Project Citation:

Wilder, Esther Isabelle, and Walters, William H. New Data on the Publishing Productivity of American Sociologists. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-06-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119867V1

Project Description

Summary: This data file, compiled from multiple online sources, presents 2013–2017 publication counts—articles, articles in high-impact journals, books, and books from high-impact publishers—for 2,132 professors and associate professors in 426 U.S. departments of sociology. It also includes information on institutional characteristics (e.g., institution type, highest sociology degree offered, department size) and individual characteristics (e.g., academic rank, gender, PhD year, PhD institution).

The data may be useful for investigations of scholarly productivity, the correlates of scholarly productivity, and the contributions of particular individuals and institutions.

Complete population data are presented for the top 26 doctoral programs, doctoral institutions other than R1 universities, the top liberal arts colleges, and other bachelor's institutions. Sample data are presented for Carnegie R1 universities (other than the top 26) and master's institutions.

All the data were compiled from publicly available sources, and the data collection process did not involve interaction with human subjects.

Funding Sources: None.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: articles; books; faculty; institution type; productivity; sociology

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1/1/2013 – 12/31/2017

Collection Date(s): 1/1/2018 – 8/31/2018

Universe: Full and associate professors of sociology at four-year public and private nonprofit colleges and universities in the United States.

Data Type(s): administrative records data

Methodology

Sampling: Complete population data are presented for universities with top-26 doctoral programs in sociology, doctoral institutions other than Carnegie R1 universities, top-50 liberal arts colleges, and other bachelor's institutions. The data for Carnegie R1 universities (other than the top 26) and master's institutions include roughly 47% and 27% of the corresponding populations.

Data Source: Data on publishing productivity were compiled chiefly from SocINDEX and Amazon.com. Other data sources include IPEDS (National Center for Education Statistics), university web sites, personal web sites, publishers' web sites, course catalogs, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, OCLC WorldCat, ProQuest Dissertation Express, and RateMyProfessors.

Collection Mode(s): other

Weights: The data file does not include weights. However, it is necessary to apply case weights when estimating population values, since the file provides sample rather than population data for two of the six institution types. Weights of 2.1198 for the R1 group, 3.7574 for the M group, and 1.0 for the other four groups will result in unbiased estimates for the population (all institution types combined). To construct a sample that is representative of the entire population without inflating the sample size—when undertaking significance tests, for instance—use case weights of 1.2201 for R1, 2.1628 for M, and 0.5756 for all other cases.

Unit(s) of Observation: Individuals. In the Sampling and Individuals worksheets, each row is an individual. However, in the Articles and Books worksheets, each row is a single publication. In the Departments worksheet, each row is an academic department/institution.

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