Faculty Hiring Networks

A place to collect the reserach and data from faculty hiring network studies.

There are lots of studies on faculty hiring. They use a variety of different methods and have deep roots across various fields. This is just a place to see them all in one place.

Sociology

• The Prestige of Ph.D. Granting Departments of Sociology: A Simple Network Approach
  Hanneman, 2001
• The Academic Caste System: Prestige Hierarchies in PhD Exchange Network
  Burris, 2004
• Academic Hiring Networks and Institutional Prestige: A Case Study of Canadian Sociology
  Nevin, 2019

Political Science

• Ranking Doctoral Programs by Placement: A New Method
  Schmidt, Chingos, 2007
• Social Networks in Political Science: Hiring and Placement of Ph.D.s, 1960 - 2002
  Fowler, Grofman, Masuoka, 2007
• Superpowers: The American Academic Elite
  Oprisko, 2012
• Academic Hierarchies in US Political Science
  Afonso, 2019

Economics

• Ranking Economics Departments Worldwide on the Basis of PhD Placement
  Amir, Knauff, 2008

Business, Computer Science, History

• Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks
  Clauset, Arbesman, Larremore, 2015
• Prestige drives epistemic inequality in the diffusion of scientific ideas
  Morgan, Economou, Way, Clauset, 2018
• The misleading narrative of the canonical faculty productivity trajectory
  Way, Morgan, Clauset, Larremore, 2018

Communication

• Network Effects in the Academic Market: Mechanisms for Hiring and Placing PhDs in Communication (2007 - 2014)
  Mai, Liu, Gonzalez-Bailon, 2015

Mathematics

• Mathematical genealogy and department prestige
  Myers, Mucha, Porter, 2011

Anthropology

• The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities
  Kawa, Michelangeli, Clark, Ginsberg, McCarty, 2018

Operations Research / Industrial Systems Engineering (ORIE)

• A Social Network Analysis of the ORIE Faculty Hiring Network
  Del Castillo, Meyers, Chen, 2018

Information Schools

• Standing on the shoulders of giants?—Faculty hiring in information school
  Zuo, Zhao, Ni, 2019

Across Fields in South Africa

• Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks, and the effects of mobility on academic performance
  Cowan, Rossello, 2018

Methods papers that use hiring network data

• A physical model for efficient ranking in networks
  De Bacco, Larremore, Moore, 2018
• Supracentrality Analysis of Temporal Networks with Directed Interlayer Coupling
  Taylor, Porter, Mucha, 2019
• Eigenvector-based centrality measures for temporal networks
  Taylor, Myers, Clauset, Porter, Mucha, 2017
• Tunable Eigenvector-Based Centralities for Multiplex and Temporal Networks
  Taylor, Porter, Mucha, 2019