Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks, and the effects of mobility on academic performance.

Autor/inn/en	Cowan, Robin; Rossello, Giulia
Titel	Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks, and the effects of mobility on academic performance.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2018) 1, S.527-562 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-018-2858-8
Schlagwörter	Academia; South Africa; Faculty hiring network; Institutional prestige; Institutional stratification; Scholars research performance; University system; Matched pair analysis
Abstract	Abstract This paper is about the South African job market for Ph.Ds. Ph.D. to first job mobility involves the preferences of both the hiring institution and the candidate. Both want to make the best choice and here institutional prestige plays a crucial role. A university’s prestige is an emergent property of hiring interactions, so we use a network perspective to measure it. Using this emergent ordering, we compare the subsequent scientific performance of scholars with different changes in the prestige hierarchy. We ask how movements between universities of different prestige from Ph.D. to first job correlates with academic performance. We use data of South African scholars from 1970 to 2012 and we find that those who make large movements in terms of prestige have lower research ratings than those who do not. Further, looking only those with large prestige movements, those with higher prestige Ph.Ds or first jobs have higher research ratings throughout their careers.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05