Social Networks of Science and Patterns of Publication in Leading Sociology Journals, 1960 to 1985

Willis, Cecil L.; McNamee, Stephen J.

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“…This latter finding is consistent with a slight expansion of publication of articles by authors affiliated with institutions outside of the Dakotas across all three editorial periods of TGPS (29%, 33%, and 39% respectively). These findings moderately confirm those of Willis and McNamee (1990). Like the four leading journals examined by these authors, TGPS appears to have moved toward a universalistic modus operandi.…”

Section: Authorship and Editorshipsupporting

confidence: 88%

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Revisiting regional traditions: An emerging sociology of the great plains

Ender

Huang

1999

Am Soc

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Meliorism, empiricism, ethnography, locality, and reform characterized Midwestern American Sociology at the turn of the twentieth century. Almost a century later, the mini-regional Great Plains Sociological Association, through its refereed publication, The Great Plains Sociologist (TGPS), maintains a variant of this tradition. We examine the first decade (1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997) of published articles (N=52) in TGPS with a focus on authorship, affiliations, editorship, and components of the earliest Chicago sociology and its diffusion to the University of North Dakota and the region through the work of John Morris Gillette. The results show that TGPS is uniquely a publication representing empirical studies, of homespun social issues, involving local samples, by sociologists and criminologists affiliated with a range of colleges and universities in and around the Dakotas and that a sociology of the Great Plains is emerging. Implications for the journal, state and mini-regional associations, and the discipline are discussed.American sociology departments and courses are rooted in the Midwest (Ritzer, 1988). One such department is located at the University of North Dakota (UND) whose first president, Webster Merrifield, a student of William Graham Sumner at Yale, taught the first sociology course in 1885 (Dawes, 1983). Merrifield recruited and hired John Morris Gillette, who in 1908 established the Department of Sociology at the University of North Dakota---one of the first departments of sociology in the United States. Gillette had studied under Albion Small, a social reformer and meliorist who had established both the first graduate program in sociology in the world at the University

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“…Willis and McNamee (1990) studied social networks among editors and authors of published articles in several leading sociology journals (American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems). They found editor evaluation to be what they termed particularistic overall.…”

Section: Authorship and Editorshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting regional traditions: An emerging sociology of the great plains

Ender

Huang

1999

Am Soc

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“…Finally, we discuss the relation of our paper to an older literature on the institutions of research and bibliometric networks (Merton, 1973;Willis and McNamee, 1990;and Schott, 1998). Merton's early work on the Matthew Effect highlighted increasing returns in the ways scientists and researchers credit each other.…”

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confidence: 99%

Strong Ties in a Small World

Leij¹,

Goyal²

2011

Review of Network Economics

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Strong ties in a small world van der Leij, M.J.; Goyal, S. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. AbstractThis paper examines the celebrated "strength of weak ties" theory of Granovetter (1973). We examine two hypotheses implied by the theory: one, for any three players with two links present, the probability of a third link being present is increasing in the strength of the two ties, and two, the removal of a weak tie breaks more shortest paths than the removal of a strong tie. This paper tests these hypotheses using data on co-authorship among economists. Our data supports the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, but it rejects the hypothesis that weak ties are more crucial than strong ties. We then propose an explanation for the strength of strong ties which builds on two properties of the network: one, significant inequality in the distribution of connections across individuals, and two, stronger ties among highly connected individuals.

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“…There is ample research to support the assertion that the majority of scientific productivity can be traced to a smaller core network of researchers (Merton, ; Willis & McNamee, ). These research groups have been referred to as “invisible colleges.” Price originally coined the term to emphasise communication between “elite, mutually interacting and productive scientists from geographically distant affiliations” (Zuccala, , p. 152).…”

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Publication patterns in developmental psychology: Trends and social networks

Dobermann

Hamilton

2015

Int J Psychol

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Interest in publication patterns has been steady. Journals have instituted policies in an effort to curb bias and provide globally representative research. This study aimed to examine if publication patterns were present in two developmental psychology journals. It also explored the social networks of prominent authors and the prevalence of informal author-editor relationships, searching for any potential power groups. Data were taken from empirical articles published between 2005 and 2014 in Child Development (CD) and The International Journal of Early Childhood (IJEC) data points were geographical authorship affiliation, informal author relationships as established by co-publishing, and connections to journal editors via identical affiliation. Results confirmed the previously established North American dominance in published research. In CD a strongly interlinked social network was identified between authors over the 10 years, with 15 chief influentialists binding groups of authors together. Results suggest that patterns are still present in published research in the realm of developmental psychology. To conclude, the potential implications of these patterns within developmental psychology are presented.

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Social Networks of Science and Patterns of Publication in Leading Sociology Journals, 1960 to 1985

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

Revisiting regional traditions: An emerging sociology of the great plains

Revisiting regional traditions: An emerging sociology of the great plains

Strong Ties in a Small World

Publication patterns in developmental psychology: Trends and social networks

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