How Much Do You Have to Publish to Get a Job in a Top Sociology Department? Or to Get Tenure? Trends over a Generation
How Much Do You Have to Publish to Get a Job in a Top Sociology Department? Or to Get Tenure? Trends over a Generation
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你需要发表多少文章才能在顶级社会学系找到一份工作？
作者：
J. R. Warren
许多社会学家怀疑，随着时间的推移，出版预期有所上升——为了获得助理教授职位而发表的研究生数量以及为了晋升而发表的助理教授数量都增加了。我利用美国社会学协会社会学研究生院指南中 21 个顶级社会学院系的教师信息、在线简历和其他公共记录，提供了经验证据来支持这一怀疑。近年来，新任助理教授在开始第一份工作的那天，发表的论文数量大约是 20 世纪 90 年代初同行的两倍。晋升副教授的趋势虽然没有那么引人注目，但仍然引人注目。我评估了对这些趋势的几种可能的解释，并得出结论：它们主要是由大学和院系的财政和组织现实随着时间的推移而发生的变化所驱动的。
Many sociologists suspect that publication expectations have risen over time—that how much graduate students have published to get assistant professor jobs and how much assistant professors have published to be promoted have gone up. Using information about faculty in 21 top sociology departments from the American Sociological Association’s Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology, online curricula vitae, and other public records, I provide empirical evidence to support this suspicion. On the day they start their first jobs, new assistant professors in recent years have already published roughly twice as much as their counterparts did in the early 1990s. Trends for promotion to associate professor are not as dramatic but are still remarkable. I evaluate several potential explanations for these trends and conclude that they are driven mainly by changes over time in the fiscal and organizational realities of universities and departments.