Kyle Siler
Biographic Data
| ID | 98358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyle Siler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Siler |
| SIGNATURE | SILER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0427-9283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Information Frequency, Value, and Difficulty as Sources of Social Inequality
Informational content and topics strategically curated by institutions underpin reward structures in knowledge economies. Using a historical database of 298,879 questions from popular American television trivia game show Jeopardy! , this article presents a case study revealing competitive inequalities rooted in a large, historical information corpus. Historically, women contestants comprise 45.5 percent of Jeopardy! contestants but only 32.5 perc…
Values matter in science, so do facts
Following my letter to QSS (Siler, 2021), Yves Gingras (2022) responded with a variety of bad faith arguments, ad hominem attacks, and hyperbole.Gingras repeatedly distorted what I actually wrote, then attacked the distortion.Straw men might be convenient interlocutors, and can provide ballast for hot takes, but seldom yield intellectual progress.In his letter, Gingras broadly posited a false dichotomy, with "rational," apolitical stalwarts (incl…
Inequality Within omnivorous knowledge
L’Affaire Strumia reveals troubling gatekeeping values and outcomes at Quantitative Science Studies
The pricing of open access journals
Open access (OA) publishing has created new academic and economic niches in contemporary science. OA journals offer numerous publication outlets with varying editorial philosophies and business models. This article analyzes the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) ( n = 12,127) to identify characteristics of OA academic journals related to the adoption of article processing charge (APC)-based business models, as well as the price points of jo…
Pipelines on the Gridiron
Stacking—the tendency of playing positions to be racially segregated in sports—remains prominent in gridiron football. This raises questions of how stacking persists and how opportunities arise for athletes of different races to assume different roles. Demographic data on 41,484 NCAA football players reveal differences in opportunities and playing roles for student-athletes of different races. In concert with previous racial stacking studies, whi…
Future Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Publishing
Digitization and the rise of Open Access publishing is an important recent development in academic communication. The current publishing system exhibits challenges with cost, where many universities are forced to cancel journal subscriptions for economic reasons, as well as access, as scholars and the public alike often lack access to research published in paywalled subscription journals. Open Access publishing solves the access problem, but not …
From ‘just the facts’ to ‘more theory and methods, please’
This paper analyzes the surface structure of research articles published in Administrative Science Quarterly between 1956 and 2008. The period is marked by a shift from essays that interweave theory, methods and results to experimental reports that separate them. There is dramatic growth in the size of theory, methods and discussion sections, accompanied by a shrinking results section. Bibliographic references and hypotheses expand in number and …
Peer Review and Scholarly Originality
We examine the criticisms and subsequent changes that arise in the course of peer review. Fifty-two scholars who had recently published in Administrative Science Quarterly were surveyed regarding their peer review experience and how their article changed from initial journal submission to eventual publication. Papers that challenged theoretical perspectives faced distinctively high levels of criticism and change, particularly with attention to me…
Revising as Reframing
Peer review guides the intensive reworking of research reports, a key mechanism in the construction of social scientific knowledge and one that gives substantial creative agency to journal editors and reviewers. We conceptualize this process in terms of two types of challenges: evidentiary challenges that question a study's methodology and interpretive challenges that question a study's theoretical framing. A survey of authors recently published …
Nascent Institutional Strategy in Dynamic Fields
This article analyzes the varied niches of an emerging academic field, Science and Technology Studies (STS), as a means of understanding intellectual and professional development. As a new, upstart entity in the established and inertial field of academia, STS has carved out a successful and expanding niche in the ecology of higher education via a variety of unique intellectual and institutional strategies. By adapting and reconfiguring organizati…
Social and Psychological Challenges of Poker
The Canada Research Chairs Program and Social Science Reward Structures
Les auteurs analysent les comptes rendus des publications et des citations des Chaires de recherche du Canada en sociologie, en science politique et en économie au cours des cinq années pendant lesquelles le programme s'est poursuivi. Ils les comparent à des échantillons aléatoires de comptes rendus de publications et de citations qui ne sont pas le fruit des Chaires de recherche du Canada dans leur discipline respective pour tester leur qualité …
Pipelines on the Gridiron
Stacking—the tendency of playing positions to be racially segregated in sports—remains prominent in gridiron football. This raises questions of how stacking persists and how opportunities arise for athletes of different races to assume different roles. Demographic data on 41,484 NCAA football players reveal differences in opportunities and playing roles for student-athletes of different races. In concert with previous racial stacking studies, whi…
Revising as Reframing
Peer review guides the intensive reworking of research reports, a key mechanism in the construction of social scientific knowledge and one that gives substantial creative agency to journal editors and reviewers. We conceptualize this process in terms of two types of challenges: evidentiary challenges that question a study's methodology and interpretive challenges that question a study's theoretical framing. A survey of authors recently published …
Peer Review and Scholarly Originality
We examine the criticisms and subsequent changes that arise in the course of peer review. Fifty-two scholars who had recently published in Administrative Science Quarterly were surveyed regarding their peer review experience and how their article changed from initial journal submission to eventual publication. Papers that challenged theoretical perspectives faced distinctively high levels of criticism and change, particularly with attention to me…
Inequality Within omnivorous knowledge
From ‘just the facts’ to ‘more theory and methods, please’
This paper analyzes the surface structure of research articles published in Administrative Science Quarterly between 1956 and 2008. The period is marked by a shift from essays that interweave theory, methods and results to experimental reports that separate them. There is dramatic growth in the size of theory, methods and discussion sections, accompanied by a shrinking results section. Bibliographic references and hypotheses expand in number and …
Nascent Institutional Strategy in Dynamic Fields
This article analyzes the varied niches of an emerging academic field, Science and Technology Studies (STS), as a means of understanding intellectual and professional development. As a new, upstart entity in the established and inertial field of academia, STS has carved out a successful and expanding niche in the ecology of higher education via a variety of unique intellectual and institutional strategies. By adapting and reconfiguring organizati…
The Canada Research Chairs Program and Social Science Reward Structures
Les auteurs analysent les comptes rendus des publications et des citations des Chaires de recherche du Canada en sociologie, en science politique et en économie au cours des cinq années pendant lesquelles le programme s'est poursuivi. Ils les comparent à des échantillons aléatoires de comptes rendus de publications et de citations qui ne sont pas le fruit des Chaires de recherche du Canada dans leur discipline respective pour tester leur qualité …
Social and Psychological Challenges of Poker
Nascent Institutional Strategy in Dynamic Fields
This article analyzes the varied niches of an emerging academic field, Science and Technology Studies (STS), as a means of understanding intellectual and professional development. As a new, upstart entity in the established and inertial field of academia, STS has carved out a successful and expanding niche in the ecology of higher education via a variety of unique intellectual and institutional strategies. By adapting and reconfiguring organizati…
Revising as Reframing
Peer review guides the intensive reworking of research reports, a key mechanism in the construction of social scientific knowledge and one that gives substantial creative agency to journal editors and reviewers. We conceptualize this process in terms of two types of challenges: evidentiary challenges that question a study's methodology and interpretive challenges that question a study's theoretical framing. A survey of authors recently published …
Peer Review and Scholarly Originality
We examine the criticisms and subsequent changes that arise in the course of peer review. Fifty-two scholars who had recently published in Administrative Science Quarterly were surveyed regarding their peer review experience and how their article changed from initial journal submission to eventual publication. Papers that challenged theoretical perspectives faced distinctively high levels of criticism and change, particularly with attention to me…
Future Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Publishing
Digitization and the rise of Open Access publishing is an important recent development in academic communication. The current publishing system exhibits challenges with cost, where many universities are forced to cancel journal subscriptions for economic reasons, as well as access, as scholars and the public alike often lack access to research published in paywalled subscription journals. Open Access publishing solves the access problem, but not …
From ‘just the facts’ to ‘more theory and methods, please’
This paper analyzes the surface structure of research articles published in Administrative Science Quarterly between 1956 and 2008. The period is marked by a shift from essays that interweave theory, methods and results to experimental reports that separate them. There is dramatic growth in the size of theory, methods and discussion sections, accompanied by a shrinking results section. Bibliographic references and hypotheses expand in number and …
Pipelines on the Gridiron
Stacking—the tendency of playing positions to be racially segregated in sports—remains prominent in gridiron football. This raises questions of how stacking persists and how opportunities arise for athletes of different races to assume different roles. Demographic data on 41,484 NCAA football players reveal differences in opportunities and playing roles for student-athletes of different races. In concert with previous racial stacking studies, whi…
The pricing of open access journals
Open access (OA) publishing has created new academic and economic niches in contemporary science. OA journals offer numerous publication outlets with varying editorial philosophies and business models. This article analyzes the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) ( n = 12,127) to identify characteristics of OA academic journals related to the adoption of article processing charge (APC)-based business models, as well as the price points of jo…
L’Affaire Strumia reveals troubling gatekeeping values and outcomes at Quantitative Science Studies
Values matter in science, so do facts
Following my letter to QSS (Siler, 2021), Yves Gingras (2022) responded with a variety of bad faith arguments, ad hominem attacks, and hyperbole.Gingras repeatedly distorted what I actually wrote, then attacked the distortion.Straw men might be convenient interlocutors, and can provide ballast for hot takes, but seldom yield intellectual progress.In his letter, Gingras broadly posited a false dichotomy, with "rational," apolitical stalwarts (incl…
Inequality Within omnivorous knowledge
Information Frequency, Value, and Difficulty as Sources of Social Inequality
Informational content and topics strategically curated by institutions underpin reward structures in knowledge economies. Using a historical database of 298,879 questions from popular American television trivia game show Jeopardy! , this article presents a case study revealing competitive inequalities rooted in a large, historical information corpus. Historically, women contestants comprise 45.5 percent of Jeopardy! contestants but only 32.5 perc…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · scientometrics and bibliometrics research (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works)