How Much Do You Have to Publish to Get a Job in a Top Sociology Department? Or to Get Tenure? Trends over a Generation

Bibliographic Data

ID7101191
AuthorsJohn T Warren (University of Minnesota System, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume6
Pages172-196
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2330-6696 • E-ISSN: 2330-6696
PublisherSociety for Sociological Science (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.15195/v6.a7
OpenAlexW2911786467
LanguageEN
Citations received44
References cited9

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

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