Aliakbar Akbaritabar
Biographic Data
| ID | 2817516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aliakbar Akbaritabar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aliakbar |
| FAMILY NAME | Akbaritabar |
| SIGNATURE | AKBARITABAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3828-1533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Internal and International Migration of Scholars in Times of Conflict: The Case of Ukraine, 2009‐2022
Current migration theories occasionally ignore the potentially negative aspects of scholarly migration as a form of high‐skilled migration, largely viewing it in a positive light. Yet scholarly migration is not always a tale of freedom and innovation, as the labels “researchers at risk” and “scientists in exile” demonstrate. We document the problematic aspects of conflict‐related scholarly migration among researchers with Ukraine‐affiliated publi…
Prioritizing global equity in migration research
Research shows that global knowledge production is unequal, leading to disparities in understanding across topics, geographies, and populations. This inequality is particularly concerning for critical social and political issues like immigration, one of the most divisive topics worldwide. Using Scopus bibliometric data from 1996 to 2022, we compile a comprehensive corpus of about 125,000 migration-related publications spanning all academic discip…
The hegemonic use of linear models in quantitative social sciences
The literature shows that more than half of quantitative research in social sciences has relied on linear modeling techniques. Linear models focus on measuring the isolated effects of independent variables on outcomes, which often implies an additive conceptualization of the social phenomena. This particular analytically-oriented framework is different from others that conceptualize the social world in terms of configurations and processes where …
A global perspective on social stratification in science
To study stratification among scientists, we reconstruct the career-long trajectories of 8.2 million scientists worldwide using 12 bibliometric measures of productivity, geographical mobility, collaboration, and research impact. While most previous studies examined these variables in isolation, we study their relationships using Multiple Correspondence and Cluster Analysis. We group authors according to their bibliometric performance and academic…
The use of linear models in quantitative research
The diversity of analysis frameworks used in different fields of quantitative research is understudied. Using bibliometric data from the Web of Science (WoS), we conduct a large-scale and cross-disciplinary assessment of the proportion of articles that use linear models in comparison to other analysis frameworks from 1990 to 2022 and investigate the spatial and citation patterns. We found that, in absolute terms, linear models are widely used acr…
An internationalised Europe and regionally focused Americas: A network analysis of higher education studies
The study on which this article reports investigated the internationalisation of higher education studies by examining collaborations in the form of international co‐authorships. We analyse how network‐based mechanisms, related to structural relationship between authors (preferential attachment, i.e., higher tendency to collaborate among the most productive ones) and node level features (homophily, i.e., tendency to collaborate with similar other…
A quantitative view of the structure of institutional scientific collaborations using the example of Berlin
This paper examines the structure of scientific collaborations in Berlin as a specific case with a unique history of division and reunification. It aims to identify strategic organizational coalitions in a context with high sectoral diversity. We use publications data with at least one organization located in Berlin from 1996–2017 and their collaborators worldwide. We further investigate four members of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA), as a …
The impact of a national research assessment on the publications of sociologists in Italy
This article investigates the impact of the second national research assessment (VQR 2004–10), which was performed in 2011 by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, on publication strategies by sociologists in Italy. We reconstructed all publications from Italian sociologists in Scopus between 2006 and 2015, that is five years before and after the assessment. We also checked academic tenure and pro…
Gender Patterns of Publication in Top Sociological Journals
This article examines publication patterns over the last seventy years from the American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology, the two most prominent journals in sociology. We reconstructed the gender of all published authors and each author's academic pedigree. Results would suggest that these journals published disproportionally more articles by male authors and their coauthors. These gender inequalities persisted even when con…
Italian sociologists: A community of disconnected groups
Gender Patterns of Publication in Top Sociological Journals
This article examines publication patterns over the last seventy years from the American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology, the two most prominent journals in sociology. We reconstructed the gender of all published authors and each author's academic pedigree. Results would suggest that these journals published disproportionally more articles by male authors and their coauthors. These gender inequalities persisted even when con…
The use of linear models in quantitative research
The diversity of analysis frameworks used in different fields of quantitative research is understudied. Using bibliometric data from the Web of Science (WoS), we conduct a large-scale and cross-disciplinary assessment of the proportion of articles that use linear models in comparison to other analysis frameworks from 1990 to 2022 and investigate the spatial and citation patterns. We found that, in absolute terms, linear models are widely used acr…
The impact of a national research assessment on the publications of sociologists in Italy
This article investigates the impact of the second national research assessment (VQR 2004–10), which was performed in 2011 by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, on publication strategies by sociologists in Italy. We reconstructed all publications from Italian sociologists in Scopus between 2006 and 2015, that is five years before and after the assessment. We also checked academic tenure and pro…
Italian sociologists: A community of disconnected groups
An internationalised Europe and regionally focused Americas: A network analysis of higher education studies
The study on which this article reports investigated the internationalisation of higher education studies by examining collaborations in the form of international co‐authorships. We analyse how network‐based mechanisms, related to structural relationship between authors (preferential attachment, i.e., higher tendency to collaborate among the most productive ones) and node level features (homophily, i.e., tendency to collaborate with similar other…
A quantitative view of the structure of institutional scientific collaborations using the example of Berlin
This paper examines the structure of scientific collaborations in Berlin as a specific case with a unique history of division and reunification. It aims to identify strategic organizational coalitions in a context with high sectoral diversity. We use publications data with at least one organization located in Berlin from 1996–2017 and their collaborators worldwide. We further investigate four members of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA), as a …
The impact of a national research assessment on the publications of sociologists in Italy
This article investigates the impact of the second national research assessment (VQR 2004–10), which was performed in 2011 by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, on publication strategies by sociologists in Italy. We reconstructed all publications from Italian sociologists in Scopus between 2006 and 2015, that is five years before and after the assessment. We also checked academic tenure and pro…
Gender Patterns of Publication in Top Sociological Journals
This article examines publication patterns over the last seventy years from the American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology, the two most prominent journals in sociology. We reconstructed the gender of all published authors and each author's academic pedigree. Results would suggest that these journals published disproportionally more articles by male authors and their coauthors. These gender inequalities persisted even when con…
A global perspective on social stratification in science
To study stratification among scientists, we reconstruct the career-long trajectories of 8.2 million scientists worldwide using 12 bibliometric measures of productivity, geographical mobility, collaboration, and research impact. While most previous studies examined these variables in isolation, we study their relationships using Multiple Correspondence and Cluster Analysis. We group authors according to their bibliometric performance and academic…
The use of linear models in quantitative research
The diversity of analysis frameworks used in different fields of quantitative research is understudied. Using bibliometric data from the Web of Science (WoS), we conduct a large-scale and cross-disciplinary assessment of the proportion of articles that use linear models in comparison to other analysis frameworks from 1990 to 2022 and investigate the spatial and citation patterns. We found that, in absolute terms, linear models are widely used acr…
Prioritizing global equity in migration research
Research shows that global knowledge production is unequal, leading to disparities in understanding across topics, geographies, and populations. This inequality is particularly concerning for critical social and political issues like immigration, one of the most divisive topics worldwide. Using Scopus bibliometric data from 1996 to 2022, we compile a comprehensive corpus of about 125,000 migration-related publications spanning all academic discip…
The hegemonic use of linear models in quantitative social sciences
The literature shows that more than half of quantitative research in social sciences has relied on linear modeling techniques. Linear models focus on measuring the isolated effects of independent variables on outcomes, which often implies an additive conceptualization of the social phenomena. This particular analytically-oriented framework is different from others that conceptualize the social world in terms of configurations and processes where …
Internal and International Migration of Scholars in Times of Conflict: The Case of Ukraine, 2009‐2022
Current migration theories occasionally ignore the potentially negative aspects of scholarly migration as a form of high‐skilled migration, largely viewing it in a positive light. Yet scholarly migration is not always a tale of freedom and innovation, as the labels “researchers at risk” and “scientists in exile” demonstrate. We document the problematic aspects of conflict‐related scholarly migration among researchers with Ukraine‐affiliated publi…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (5 works) · scientometrics and bibliometrics research (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Scopus (3 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Geography (2 works)