The Role of Conferences on the Pathway to Academic Impact

Leon, Fernanda Leite Lopez de; McQuillin, Ben

doi:10.3368/jhr.55.1.1116-8387r

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“…However, by excluding these papers we also underestimate the conference effect because we thereby exclude individuals that have a higher intrinsic likelihood to work in teams. 8 In Leon and McQuillin (2016), we document other effects of the 2012 APSA cancellation: articles became less likely to be cited. We also find some evidence that articles become less likely to be published due to the cancellation.…”

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“…However, we also need to consider whether the affects above may be mediated by other conference effects. Leon and McQuillin (2016), suggest that papers' probability of becoming cited within two years was reduced by five percentage points by the APSA conference cancellation. So it is possible, in principle, that authors whose work gains recognition by being presented at a conference subsequently (due to this recognition) enjoy better opportunities to collaborate.…”

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“…published papers with both the same authorship and a "similar" title to that of the conference paper. Title "similarity" is determined using an algorithm developed and explained in Leon and McQuillin (2016): in essence, two titles are viewed as similar if enough (50 percent) of short, five-character sub-strings coincide.…”

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“…This strategy is similar to the one we use in Leon and McQuillin (2016). We use, as a baseline group, collaborations formed among participants at a comparator conference: the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Meeting.…”

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“…1 Chai and Freeman (2017) also infer positive conference effects, but by a different approach: comparing patterns of collaboration among attendees of the Gordon Research Conferences with patterns among a matched group 1 Previous papers have however used experimental data to understand other forms of conference effect. Leon and McQuillin (2016) used the same data and setting as the current paper to look at conference effects on the academic impact (as measured by citations) of presented papers. Blau et al (2010) investigated the success of CeMENT -a mentoring workshop, arguably similar to a small conference, for female assistant professors -in increasing participants' publications and successful grant publications, based on randomized controlled trial data.…”

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By exploiting the cancellation of the 2012 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, we investigate the role of conferences in facilitating academic collaboration. We assembled datasets comprising 17,467 academics, and in difference-in-differences analysis we find that the conference cancellation led to a decrease in individuals' likelihood of co-authoring an article with another attendant by sixteen percent. Moreover, collaborations formed among attendants of (occurring) conferences are associated with more successful co-publications: an effect which is sharpest for teams that are new or non-collocated. Conferences seem to de-cluster the co-authorship network. Altogether, our findings demonstrate the importance of conferences in scientific production.

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Remote Scientific Conferences After the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for Socialization Drives Preferences for Virtual Reality Meetings

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to exert influence on the scientific community: circumstances have forced academics to engage more frequently in technology-mediated activities, including their participation in remote and virtual conferences. In this article, we contemplate immersive virtual environments: we verify researchers’ motivations and constraints in the context of online conferences, and discover in what elements of such conferences researchers wish to participate in virtual reality (VR). A survey was administered using a computer-assisted web interview (CAWI) questionnaire among the sample of 1,575 academics with the POL-on database as the sampling frame. The results indicate that individuals’ contrasting needs and attitudes toward technology determine the degree to which they look favourably upon both remote conferencing and VR. Immersive virtual environments appear to satisfy the need for socialization; ordinary remote conferences fulfil the need for security and the achievement of fundamental conference goals, such as establishing collaboration and publishing research results. Conferences that are hosted remotely must be relevant to the needs of researchers and meet their discrete expectations; only then will such events prove valuable enough that researchers are willing to continue participating in them after the pandemic subsides.

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The Role of Conferences on the Pathway to Academic Impact

Cited by 37 publications

References 44 publications

Lost in the Storm: The Academic Collaborations that Went Missing in Hurricane Isaac

Lost in the Storm: The Academic Collaborations that Went Missing in Hurricane Isaac

Moving academic conferences online: Aids and barriers to delegate participation

Remote Scientific Conferences After the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for Socialization Drives Preferences for Virtual Reality Meetings

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