article rankings
i don't put too much stock in department rankings, but i was happy to see a bootleg copy of a forthcoming footnotes piece on article production by christopher hausmann, rebecca bryant-fritz, elizabeth covay, brian miller, jeffrey seymour, and yuting wang.the authors ranked departments by publications-per-person in sociology's three leading general interest journals, the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces over the past three years. minnesota jumped from 30th in the last round of rankings to 8th in this one, which seems like darn good progress.
articles aren't everything of course, and lots of great articles appear outside the big three journals. since so many of my colleagues (and myself, i guess) are focusing on books lately, i'm glad to know that we're getting good news on the article front as well. here are the rankings, taken from table 1 of the article (shared ranks indicate ties):
1. Ohio State
2. North Carolina
3. Duke
4. Stanford
5. Notre Dame
6. Pennsylvania State
7. Wisconsin- Madison
8. Minnesota
9. Columbia
9. Princeton
11. Washington
12. Northwestern
13. Indiana
14. Arizona
15. Cornell
16. Harvard
17. Pennsylvania
18. California- Irvine
19. Washington State
20. SUNY - Albany
21. Purdue
21. Cal-Los Angeles
23. Chicago
24. Michigan
25. Tulane
26. Mass- Amherst
27. Texas- Austin
28. South Carolina
29. Western Washington
30. Cal- Santa Barbara
30. Oregon
32. California- Berkeley
32. Utah
34. California- Davis
35. Johns Hopkins
36. SUNY- Stony brook
36. Georgia
38. North Carolina State
39. Dartmouth College
39. Cal - San Diego
posted by christopher uggen @ 11:06 AM
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No offense to any department intended, but this metric seems like it would be mainly a measure of the age structure of a department and it's relative tolerance for "book people." In any case, is there really a good argument for referring to the "Big 3" journals anymore? The difference between AJS/ASR and Social Forces seems very large, and often it publishes more articles and so would end up being the most influential on a measure like this.
Incidentally, Footnotes published rankings based on a measure like this done by some people at the University of Iowa about ten years ago. The University of Iowa came out #1.
jeremy, i was thinking about age structure too. do you think it is mainly assistants/new associates publishing articles in AJS/ASR/SF? there's probably a good career/life course story in there somewhere.
it would be pretty easy to build in a book component as well (e.g., top X university presses), but i'm not that motivated to do it. one could also weight journals by ISI impact factor or something.
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