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Quantitative Science Studies | Global Academic Profession | Full Professor | UNESCO Chair | Academia Europaea | 'Changing European Academics' (Routledge 2019)

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So glad - my article w. @lukasz_szymula in "Higher Education"! ‼️"Quantifying attrition in science: a cohort-based, longitudinal study of scientists in 38 OECD countries"‼️ Thousands of scientists tracked over time - how they disappear from science?
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Interesting! DiD methodology! "Junior researchers who coauthor work with top scientists enjoy a persistent competitive advantage throughout the rest of their careers, compared to peers with similar early career profiles but without top coauthors".
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Early coauthorship with top scientists predicts success in academic careers

Nature Communications - By examining publication records of scientists from four disciplines, the authors show that coauthoring a paper with a top-cited scientist early in one's career predicts...

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Interesting! Junior researchers who coauthor work with top scientists enjoy a persistent competitive advantage throughout the rest of their careers, compared to peers with similar early career profiles but without top coauthors.
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Early coauthorship with top scientists predicts success in academic careers

Nature Communications - By examining publication records of scientists from four disciplines, the authors show that coauthoring a paper with a top-cited scientist early in one's career predicts...

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‼️ Hot news! ‼️ Thrilled to become #Associate #Editor of the legendary "Higher Education" journal @SpringerNature , effective January 1, 2024! Published in "HE" first in 2003. Never thought would be co-shaping the field of ‼️ #higher_education research‼️! Thank you, folks!
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Proud and happy to start running a new "Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities" (IAS) at AMU as its director until 2024. Initial budget from Excellence Initiative (IDUB) 10 MIL PLN (2.5 MIL EUR). External funding will be sought. Wish as every success!
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A story of #persistence in research #productivity : top performers will be top perfomers, bottom perfomers will be bottom performers (in very high proportions). #BigData & administrative data on #scientists used. Open Access #MarekPublishes Thread here:
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Wang and Barabasi' book still available for free! Downloadable from OUP. "Science of Science" nicely explained, for researchers, practitioners & the wider public. Excellent! By @dashunwang and @barabasi
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How to #survive in science? Check your country & #discipline ! My global study w. @lukasz_szymula on #attrition in #science 400,000 scientists: Interactive dashboard for OECD #discipline #gender #cohort : … #MarekPublishes
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Interesting! "Scientists are unwilling to move when their children are 14–17. Elite scientists find it costly to disrupt the social networks of their children during adolescence and take these costs into account when making career decisions".
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Luck in academic careers: "Luck is never the main thing that our interlocutors discuss, but it persistently recurs as an aspect of narrations of careers and work practices".
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Luck and the ‘situations’ of research - Sarah R Davies, Bao-Chau Pham, 2023

This research note uses material from interviews with senior scholars in the natural sciences to highlight, and start to explore, the role and nature of ‘luck’ ...

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Nature: ‼️An analysis of the publication records of academic editors shows that one-quarter of them publish 10% of their own papers in the journals they edit. ‼️Fewer than 10% of editors-in-chief are women. Huge congratulations 👍 @mollymking !
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Thrilled to start my new work (2024-2028) as #Associate #Editor of the famous "Higher Education" journal @SpringerNature ! Never thought of it when publishing there in 2003 for the first time! Thank you, a new #experience !
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Starting my new 2020-2024 appointment as deputy leader (for research & internationalization) of a 100 million USD university development project of @UAM_Poznan . New Polish Excellence Initiative #IDUB , 10 universities, 1 billion USD. Wish me (first left) good luck! Off we go!
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Why the academic profession is so internally divided? My #Routledgebooks book on "Changing European Academics" published last year discusses 6 major types of stratification: performance, salary, acad. power, internationalization, acad. role and age. See
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I am absolutely sorry to say this - but I just cannot imagine my #research (in quant. studies of science) without Sci-Hub. I know, illegal. I know, Robin Hood. Think of scientists from poorer countries, if I am saying this, w. lavish access to literature at univ. Using every day.
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Proud to invite the global #HigherEducation research community in 2025 to: ▶️The #CHER 37th Annual Conference in Poznan! ▶️CHER, Consortium of Higher Education Researchers ✅After Vienna 2023, Luxembourg 2024 - Poznan 2025! ✅Accept my invitation as #Chair CHER 2025 today!
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Age structure of Polish science (N=25,463): female scientists disappear from the age of 40 on, & as full professors. Look at peak for male scientists ca. 65. They stay on... Expect my paper "Patterns of Man-Woman Collaboration Among 25,000 Professors" soon - to see the point...
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An excellent policy paper by the OECD on the dangers of precarious academic careers. A global Expert Group, huge number of international interviewees, 68 pages in Open Access. Just released! Well done, highly recommended!
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So happy! My paper w. @WojciechRoszka published in @SpringerNature "Higher Education" today, Open Access! ▶️"Once Highly Productive, Forever Highly Productive? Full Professors' Research Productivity from a Longitudinal Perspective" #MarekPublishes
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Once highly productive, forever highly productive? Full professors’ research productivity from a...

Higher Education - This longitudinal study explores persistence in research productivity at the individual level over academic lifetime: can highly productive scientists maintain relatively high...

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Interesting! Very! Strong evidence for the status bias: while only 23 % recommend “reject” when the prominent researcher is the only author shown, 48 % do so when the paper is anonymized, & 65 % do so when the little-known author is the only author shown
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Changing publishing patterns in Social Sciences vs. Humanities, 2000-2020: divergent trajectories! Social Sciences - ever more intern. collaboration & ever less single authorships, close to Natural Sciences. Humanities - power of single authors, still 50-70% (see dark blue)!
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An excellently critical review of "The Science of Science" by Dashun Wang & Albert‑László Barabási (CUP 2021) by @csugimoto in @nature . Very well done; food for thought, Professor Sugimoto! Scientific success by numbers
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My paper published yesterday: where to publish higher education research best (& why prestgious journals work for all so well?) Method. & results applicable for all SSH areas! 21,442 articles in 41 core journals in higher education in Scopus, 1996-2018.
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The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach

Higher Education - This study addresses stratification in the global higher education research community and the changing geography of country affiliations in six elite journals. The distribution...

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How to #survive in science? Check your country & discipline! Our global study on #attrition in #science , 400,000 indiv. cases: Interactive dashboard for 38 OECD countries by #discipline #gender #cohort is here: More
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Simon Marginson, Oxford: "In English-speaking nations and other Western countries, it is so difficult and so vital that we finally break with this inherited belief in our own superiority". Geopolitical narcissism has no place in HE partnerships
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Geopolitical narcissism has no place in HE partnerships

What we lack in international higher education is a shared moral order and consensus about the global common good, based on equality of respect and cu...

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A good article is always good for a certain journal. Decide first where you want to publish. 7 pages of useful advice! Have read this editorial with great interest.
How to write a good article - Eloísa Martín, 2014

This article presents the main challenges of academic writing and publication in scientific journals. It reveals some of the most common mistakes in the process...

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CSHE Berkeley Spring Speakers Series 2022, so honored to be invited: "Big Data in Academic Profession Studies: Advantages and Limitations" Come & listen to me, April 20 (Wed). Thank you so much @IgorChirikov @George_B_CSHE @BerkeleyCSHE ! #MarekTalks
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Citation rates vary by field: top-ranked journals in maths have impact factors of around 3; top-ranked journals in cell biology have impact factors of 30. Normalized indicators are required, and the most robust normalization method is based on percentiles.
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Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics

Nature - Use these ten principles to guide research evaluation, urge Diana Hicks, Paul Wouters and colleagues.

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I am super proud to be opening a new Lecture Series "Science of Science in the Spotlight" at Uni of Luxembourg! "Inequalities in Science: Major Collaboration Types & Their Implications for Academic Careers", Feb 24 2021. Feel invited! Thank you @jenniferdusdal @justinjwpowell !
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The power of academics on Twitter: Yesterday I posted a note on a paper from in "Nature". Today it has 120,000 impressions and 5,500 various engagements. I cannot imagine a more powerful instantaneous free promotion of someone else's ideas. (I wish it was mine; it is not).
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"More than half of citations to academic papers reflect little-to-no intellectual influence on the authors citing them". Excellent analysis!
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So glad! Proud to say my #HigherEducation paper: "The Prestige Economy of Higher Education Journals: A Quantitative Approach" was accepted in SpringerNature "Higher Education"! Before Gold Access is granted, the paper is available from ResearchGate:
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Interesting! Useful! ERC: A linguistic analysis of grant proposal abstracts, project descriptions & CV of applicants reveals characteristics of the texts that have a positive effect on the score received and the probability of winning ERC grant.
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Almost 70% of researchers based in Europe say that they have been involved in projects in the past three years that listed authors who did not contribute sufficiently to the work.
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Unearned authorship pervades science

Nature - Research-integrity survey also suggests that there is a split in US- and Europe-based researchers’ perceptions of ‘questionable research practices’.

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Today! Thrilled to see my article on #persistence in research #productivity over life-course in "Higher Education"! ‼️ Top perfomers are top performers, and bottom performers are bottom performers (in large proportions) over their entire lives! ‼️2326 Polish full professors.
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A story of #persistence in research #productivity : top performers will be top perfomers, bottom perfomers will be bottom performers (in very high proportions). #BigData & administrative data on #scientists used. Open Access #MarekPublishes Thread here:
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The growth of European science in 2009-2018 (Scopus data) is entirely attributable to internationally co-authored papers. See my "What large-scale publication & citation data tell us about international research collaboration in Europe". #MarekPublishes
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Excellent, The Lancet! Compared to in-person meetings, virtual meetings are cheaper, have a 1000–3000-fold lower carbon footprint, require no travel time & are more inclusive. The critical role of funders in shrinking the carbon footprint of research
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We find that male researchers more often value and engage in research mainly aimed at scientific progress, which is more cited. Female researchers more often value and engage in research mainly aimed at contributing to societal progress
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Gender differences in the aims and impacts of research

Scientometrics - This study uses mixed methods—classical citation analysis, altmetric analysis, a survey with researchers as respondents, and text analysis of the abstracts of scientific...

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My article with @WojciechRoszka in "Journal of Informetrics" today! So happy! "Gender-based homophily in research: A large-scale study of man-woman collaboration" Whole national system, 25,000 academics, 160,000 papers, 10 years Open Access See thread
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Top journals vs. academic career, promotion, tenure and research funding. What every young scientist should know... See the rules of the game in "The Prestige Economy of Higher Education Journals" published in #HigherEducation today. Gold Access from
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Interesting! Our results show that family background accounts for over a third of the overall variation in becoming a PhD & subsequently an academic — a share which is up to four times as large as implied by conventional comparisons by parental education
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It runs in the family?

Higher Education - Family background has been shown to be a strong determinant of educational attainment, yet relatively little is known about the role that family background plays in PhD...

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Peer review and new metrics! A review of the ways in which Google Scholar, Scopus, and other bibliometric tools may prove useful for faculty in tenure and promotion decisions.
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Happy to join the Editorial Board of "British Educational Research Journal" (BERJ) for 2021-2024 (following my membership as International Advisory Board Member in the past 4 years)! BERJ is a flagship journal of British Educational Research Association @BERJ_Editors @BERAHighEd .
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Gender bias in peer review? No signs in 145 journals! "Results showed that manuscripts written by women as solo authors or coauthored by women were treated even more favorably by referees and editors".
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Peer review and gender bias: A study on 145 scholarly journals

No evidence that women are penalized in peer review and editorial processes, finds study on 145 journals in multiple disciplines.

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A new issue of "International Higher Education" (Spring 2021) released! Gold Access, 42 pages, great short papers from across the world, eminent colleagues. Global scholarly news in a nutshell (Kwiek in 2002 for the first time!). Highly recommended!
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"In order to maximize career outcomes, an advantageous publishing strategy for early career scholars is to publish some of their papers in the same journal".
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What is the best article publishing strategy for early career scientists?

Scientometrics - To date, it remains unclear how different approaches to early career publishing behaviors (e.g., publishing papers in the same journal or in different journals) may benefit a young...

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Sitting at an ultra-interesting annual Editorial Board meeting of "Higher Education Quarterly", the oldest UK journal in higher education. I started my service - back in 2004! Hello colleagues!
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Growth of European science in 2009-2018 (Scopus data) is entirely attributable to intern. co-authored papers. See my "What large-scale publication & citation data tell us about intern. research collab in Europe", out. ResearchGate
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‼️My new paper w. @WojciechRoszka about #time in academic #careers - out in "Studies in Higher Education"! ▶️"The young and the old, the fast and the slow: a large-scale study of productivity classes and rank advancement" ▶️We examined a large sample
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Voila! Presidential Science Council! "The creation of a Presidential Science Council, a group of 12 leading scientists that will meet several times a year and advise the president on research strategy and key issues facing scientists".
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Massive shake-up of French science system is biggest in decades

Nature - Billion-euro plan includes greater oversight for national research institutes and the creation of a top-level council to advise the president on science.

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A story of #persistence in research #productivity : top performers will be top perfomers, bottom perfomers will be bottom performers (in very high proportions). See thread.
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So happy to have already 8,000 downloads for my new 2021 paper! Looks like top journals & prestige generation do attract scholarly attention worldwide! Preparing a text on females & disciplinary origins of the global higher education research community.
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Next time you supervise a PhD, remember! What makes PhDs leave their programs, thoughts of discontinuing: mental health difficulties were among the strongest factors, and financial stress was the most prevalent.
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What makes PhD researchers think seriously about discontinuing? an exploration of risk factors and...

Although high PhD attrition rates are a matter of international concern, the factors that lead doctoral researchers to leave their programmes are not well understood. The present study addresses th...

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Dear ResearchGate, do not do this, protect your brand! Short-term visibility wins, long-term prestige losses.
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We are pleased to announce our new partnership with @MDPIOpenAccess that will see 10 of MDPI’s journals benefit from an enhanced presence on ResearchGate through our innovative Journal Home offering.
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Glad to see recording of my Fri CWTS Leiden seminar: "How Scientists Change Over Time: Persistence in High (and Low) Individual Research Productivity from a Life-Cycle Perspective" Thanks @cwtsleiden , @LudoWaltman for chairing & audience! #MarekTalks
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Interesting! "Nobel laureates cluster together. 696 of the 727 winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, medicine, and economics belong to one single academic family tree".
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The Nobel family

Scientometrics - Nobel laureates cluster together. 696 of the 727 winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, medicine, and economics belong to one single academic family tree. 668 trace...

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20% of citations received to papers published in 2020 to 2021 were to COVID-19–related papers. Across science, 98 of the 100 most-cited papers published in 2020 to 2021 were related to COVID-19.
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Massive covidization of research citations and the citation elite | PNAS

Massive scientific productivity accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the citation impact of COVID-19 publications relative to all scient...

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21,442 articles in 41 core journals in higher education in Scopus, 1996-2018. Declining role of Anglo-Saxon, esp. US, affiliations in the six global elite journals. Expect my paper on "The Prestige Economy of Higher Education Journals: A Quantitative Approach" (hopefully soon).
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‼️A story of #persistence in research #productivity : Top Performers will be Top Perfomers, Bottom Perfomers will be Bottom Performers (in very high proportions). ‼️ #BigData & administrative data about #scientists used. 🔎Open Access Thread here:
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An excellent analysis of changing inequalities and expansion of higher education in Poland, published a few hours ago. Congrats!
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Higher education expansion, system transformation, and social inequality. Social origin effects on...

Higher Education - This paper analyzes the development of social inequality in the Polish higher education system during its expansion after 1990 using data from the Polish General Social Survey....

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Just arrived in my mailbox! Yes, confirmed with material gadgets now - the membership in Academia Europaea! Thank you so much, the academic community in my area. This is how the gadgets look like. #MarekAwarded
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4 million reviews, probably 1 million reviewers. Per year, just in Clarivate journals. It is us, academic scientists, who run this business. For free. No complaints but good to remember!
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Peer Review Week is here! Data from ScholarOne show that in the past 12 months, 4,172,474 reviews were completed across 7,344 journals. Thank you peer reviewers! #PeerReviewWeek21 #IdentityinPeerReview
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Interesting! A fundamental technical challenge in the analysis of network data is the automated discovery of communities — groups of nodes that are strongly connected or that share similar features or roles. Progress in the field over the past 20 years.
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20 years of network community detection

Nature Physics - A fundamental technical challenge in the analysis of network data is the automated discovery of communities — groups of nodes that are strongly connected or that share...

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21,442 articles in 41 core journals in higher education in Scopus, 1996-2018. Who is publishing where (percentages)? Changing geography of HE research over time. Expect my paper on "The Prestige Economy of Higher Education Journals: A Quantitative Approach" (hopefully soon).
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I know I recommended it before. However, the list of (potentially) most influential papers and those being already classics makes good sense. Both the blog and this entry: recommended!
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Research on higher education research: a bibliography - ECHER

What is higher education research? Is it a (scattered) field, a discipline, a tribe, a territory, a (a‐theoretical) community of practice, a cluster of silos, or an archipelago whose watery divides...

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Two decades (2000-2020) of internationalization of research by 6 major academic fields, top 25 global academic knowledge producers. Expect my paper on the globalization of science soon!
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The casualization of the academic profession may lead to the need of the redefinition of who early career researchers are. Increasingly, 5 yrs after PhD may not work as a limit. Redefining ‘early career’ in academia: a collective narrative approach
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Redefining ‘early career’ in academia: a collective narrative approach

‘Early career’ in academia is typically defined in terms of research capability in the five years following PhD completion, with career progression from post-doctoral appointment to tenure, promoti...

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Just arrived in my mailbox. Pretty interesting, pretty expensive. Handbook Bibliometrics. Ed. Rafael Ball, 2021. 530 pp. to read, many very good authors.
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So happy! Just received a package with copies of my new #Polish book, "Global Science, Global Scientists" ( #PWN 2022, 620 pp.). #Books in the age of academic #journals - still matter (old school)! #Multilingualism - important in higher ed research.
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I know we know - but reminding, just in case: ▶️Wang, D., & Barabási, A. (2021). The Science of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108610834 is available for free in its open-access version from:
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"Globalization of science, the most potent aspect of modern globalization. A more competitive multi-centric core observed in the world science system". Check newcomers between 2000 & 2015 Globalization of science & internation. scientific collaboration
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Where to publish, young scholars? In the same journal (preferably, a very good one)! "In order to maximize career outcomes, an advantageous publishing strategy for early career scholars is to publish some of their papers in the same journal".
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Interesting US data! Bibliometric evaluation using only journal articles fails to capture more than 50% of the published works in 26 of 170 disciplines over a 10-year timeframe, almost all of which are in the humanities.
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Frontiers | The Rhythms of Scholarly Publication: Suggestions to Enhance Bibliometric Comparisons...
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Interesting! Substantial attrition of new parents; nearly one-half of new mothers and nearly one-quarter of new fathers leave full-time STEM employment after having children. Parenthood is an important driver of gender imbalance in STEM employment.
The changing career trajectories of new parents in STEM | PNAS

The gender imbalance in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields has remained constant for decades and increases the farther up the...

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Do not believe it too much. In most countries, for most academics, there is #no #return to academy once you leave it for several years. The #cumulative losses of being out are just too high.
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Boomerang academics: why we left academia for industry, but then came back

Nature - A move from one sector to another isn’t a one-way street. Researchers who have pivoted between the two explain why.

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So happy! My #HigherEducation paper on #prestige : "The Prestige Economy of Higher Education Journals: A Quantitative Approach" was published in SpringerNature "Higher Education"! Gold Access PDFs from . Read, enjoy, analyze, replicate & share!
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Delighted to be invited to speak at "The 2021 EUA Annual Conference" in April! A great experience, thank you @euatweets ! European University Association (EUA) represents more than 800 universities and national rectors’ conferences in 48 European countries.
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If you think that solo research is gone, you are wrong (2000-2020). In the humanties, the percentage of solo articles in 2020 was 55% for EU-28, 55% for the OECD, and 51% for the US. #MarekPublishes See my new paper on "The Globalization of Science":
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UNESCO reaffirms higher education as a right and a public good
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UNESCO reaffirms higher education as a right and a public good

The UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022 opened this week in Barcelona in Spain, reaffirming the importance of higher education as a public g...

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Global survey: nearly half of higher education staff say they are likely to leave the sector in the next five years because of excessive workloads despite appreciating the benefits of more flexible working. Deteriorating working conditions!
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Four in 10 higher education staff say they’ll quit in five years

THE’s second global work-life balance survey finds although flexible working has brought benefits, long hours remain a ‘chronic’ problem

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"Studies in Higher Education" is seeking an Associate Editor - deadline November 22.
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20% of citations received to papers published in 2020-2021 were to COVID-19–related papers. Across science, 98 of the 100 most-cited papers published in 2020-2021 were related to COVID-19. Massive covidization of research citations and the citation elite
Massive covidization of research citations and the citation elite | PNAS

Massive scientific productivity accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the citation impact of COVID-19 publications relative to all scient...

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Interesting! Scientific communities increasingly centre research from highly active countries while overlooking work from peripheral countries. This inequality is likely to pose substantial challenges to the growth of novel ideas.
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Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing...

Nature Human Behaviour - Gomez et al. study international citation and text similarity networks across 150 fields and find that some countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom,...

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Published today! Just thrilled! #phdvoice , #postdocvoice , #cies_us , #phdchat , #AcademicTwitter , #AcademicCareer , #ScienceOfScience , #AcademicProfession , #STEM , #Scopus , #BigData
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A story of #persistence in research #productivity : top performers will be top perfomers, bottom perfomers will be bottom performers (in very high proportions).
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Polish Higher Education Reforms - But Never Dared Ask... "Poland: A Decade of Reforms (2010–2020)" Radical changes in funding, governance & assesment in 3 pages... Enjoy the story! Thank you @PhilipAltbach and @HdeWitIHEd so much.
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My 2020 paper: where to publish in higher education best - and why prestgious journals work for all, espec. for younger scholars? Method. & results applicable for other areas. "The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach"
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Interesting! US data. "The economic return to education is substantially larger than that to skills; the role of education outweighs that of skills in forming social stratification".
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Beyond ‘Imagined Meritocracy’: Distinguishing the Relative Power of Education and Skills in...

Scholars argue the dominant discourse of meritocracy legitimises intergenerational inequality and the winner–loser divide. However, is our society really merito...

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Interesting! 40 MIL tweets about pubs, 4 MIL authors. "Only half of the tweeted publications are tweeted outside of academia. We conclude that, in general, the tweeting of scient. publications is not a valid indicator of the societal impact of research"
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology | Wiley Online Library

The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity of tweets about scientific publications as an indicator of societal impact by measuring the degree to which the publications are tweeted...

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Finally, after 14 months of work, my paper with @WojciechRoszka , "Gender-Based Homophily in Research: A Large-Scale Study of Man-Woman Collaboration" was accepted in "Journal of Informetrics". How we, academics, after decades in business, still love these acceptance letters!
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(5/6) Across all age groups studied, all-female collaboration is marginal, while all-male collaboration is pervasive. We focused on academic positions and age groups too.
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So happy! The news of the year - becoming an ordinary member of "Academia Europaea. The Academy of Europe"! What an honor! Class A2: "Governance, Institutions & Policies" (17 members), with disting. colleagues! Proudly belonging to the 15% youngest members, thanks @acad_euro
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The CHER Consortium of Higher Education Researchers invites you to Vienna: Abstract Submission: 28th of February, 2023. And remember: 2024 Luxembourg, 2025 Poznan!
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▶️Finally, the book will be out in July 2023, many excellent chapters! ▶️Marek Kwiek, ‼️“The Globalization of Science: The Increasing Power of Individual Scientists" ‼️, ✅available here: ▶️Thank you @paola_mattei38 for coordination! Thread:
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My #research on #higherEducation and research #Collaboration was published in @Scientometrics "Internationalists" vs. "locals" in research: who collaborates internationally, who does not. And why. A "Gold Access" PDF in "Scientometrics" is here: . Enjoy!
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The book and the author. Enjoy before a new monograph comes!
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Thinking whether #reviewing dozens (45 in 2023) of manuscripts for #top journals in my field makes sense ? However, finally, one review per week seems a must. If we do not do it, who will? Peer review is just work for the #global academic #community . Please try not to say no!
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To create narrative structure, we urge writers to consider starting at the end of their study, starting with writing their main conclusions, which provide the basis of the Discussion, and then work backwards.
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Finding your scientific story by writing backwards

Marine Life Science & Technology - To succeed, a scientist must write well. Substantial guidance exists on writing papers that follow the classic Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion...

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‼️My new paper w. @WojciechRoszka about #time in academic #careers - out in "Studies in Higher Education! ▶️"The young and the old, the fast and the slow: a large-scale study of productivity classes and rank advancement" ▶️ #MarekPublishes , see Thread:
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Just excellent book! Academic Collegiality, Collaboration, Competition and Universities as Organizations. Download for free! Thanks @EmeraldGlobal
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The CHER "Consortium of Higher Education Researchers" in Vienna: Annual Conference 2023 at @wu_vienna soon! See many colleagues there! I will have 2 presentations: on top productivity classes & their attributes and on young women in global science, both w. Big Data analytics.
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CHER 33rd Annual Conference 2021: "Promoting Closer Relations and Scholarly Dialogues Between European and Asian Higher Education Research". 1-3 September, 2021. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
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@Marek_Kwiek , @Momarquina , @glenjonesoise , @liudvikaleisyte , Timo Aarreaara & Manja Klemencic debating academic profession at Harvard. Register now! Mahindra Seminar on Universities: Academic profession in knowledge-based societies - global perspectives
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