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On the Impact of Academic Factors on Scholar Popularity: A Cross-Area Study

Authors : Pablo Figueira, Gabriel Pacheco, Jussara M. Almeida, Marcos A. Gonçalves

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Abstract

In this paper we assess the relative importance of key academic factors – conference papers, journal articles and student supervisions – on the popularity of scholars in various knowledge areas, including areas of exact and biological sciences. To that end, we rely on curriculum vitae data of almost 700 scholars affiliated to 17 top quality graduate programs of two of the largest universities in Brazil, as well as popularity measures crawled from a large digital library, covering a 16-year period. We use correlation analysis to assess the relative importance of each factor to the popularity of individual scholars and groups of scholars affiliated to the same program. We contrast our results with those of two top programs of a major international institution, namely, the Computer Science and Medicine departments of the Stanford University.

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Footnotes
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Each point represents one scholar.
 
9
The scatter plot for conference papers for Medical Sciences is omitted due to space constraints.
 
10
The Pearson linear correlation coefficients are slightly smaller but lead to similar conclusions.
 
11
Recall that we do not have data on student supervision for Stanford scholars.
 
12
Differences under 5 % are consideredties.
 
13
We used the t-test available in the SciPy library – http://​scipy.​org.
 
14
Each point represents one year in this computation.
 
15
Differences under 5 % are considered ties.
 
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Metadata
Title
On the Impact of Academic Factors on Scholar Popularity: A Cross-Area Study
Authors
Pablo Figueira
Gabriel Pacheco
Jussara M. Almeida
Marcos A. Gonçalves
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-24591-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-24592-8

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_11

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