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Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks, and the effects of mobility on academic performance

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Giulia RosselloAuthors Info & Claims

Scientometrics, Volume 117, Issue 1

Pages 527 - 562

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2858-8

Published: 01 October 2018 Publication History

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This paper is about the South African job market for Ph.Ds. Ph.D. to first job mobility involves the preferences of both the hiring institution and the candidate. Both want to make the best choice and here institutional prestige plays a crucial role. A university's prestige is an emergent property of hiring interactions, so we use a network perspective to measure it. Using this emergent ordering, we compare the subsequent scientific performance of scholars with different changes in the prestige hierarchy. We ask how movements between universities of different prestige from Ph.D. to first job correlates with academic performance. We use data of South African scholars from 1970 to 2012 and we find that those who make large movements in terms of prestige have lower research ratings than those who do not. Further, looking only those with large prestige movements, those with higher prestige Ph.Ds or first jobs have higher research ratings throughout their careers.

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Scientometrics Volume 117, Issue 1

October 2018

646 pages

ISSN:0138-9130

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Tóth JHáló GGoyanes M(2023)Beyond views, productivity, and citations: measuring geopolitical differences of scientific impact in communication researchScientometrics10.1007/s11192-023-04801-7128:10(5705-5729)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11192-023-04801-7
Feeley TTutzauer F(2021)The faculty hiring network for PhD-granting communication programsScientometrics10.1007/s11192-021-03917-y126:5(3983-4003)Online publication date: 1-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11192-021-03917-y
Demeter MToth T(2020)The world-systemic network of global elite sociology: the western male monoculture at faculties of the top one-hundred sociology departments of the worldScientometrics10.1007/s11192-020-03563-w124:3(2469-2495)Online publication date: 17-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11192-020-03563-w

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