Quality of Graduate Productivity in Sociology as Measured by the Citation Index: A Longitudinal Overview.

Smith, David Lewis; And Others

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Publication Date: 1980

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Quality of Graduate Productivity in Sociology as Measured by the Citation Index: A Longitudinal Overview.

Smith, David Lewis; And Others

Research in Higher Education, v13 n4 p343-52 1980

Data from the Social Science Citation Index are used to measure the differential productivity among graduates of established and prestigiuos doctoral programs. Quality of former graduate students' productivity (publications) is assessed. Patterns concerning the quality of productivity, both across departments and within alumni of the same departments, emerged. (Author/MLW)

Descriptors: Citation Indexes, College Graduates, Doctoral Programs, Educational Quality, Graduate Students, Graduate Surveys, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies, Productivity, Professional Recognition, Publications, Scholarship, Sociology

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Language: English

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