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AQuaRel: Accounting for the Quantified Quality of Academic Researchers in the field of Sociology. A Multi-level Network Analysis Perspective
[Young Researcher Grant awarded in 2016 by the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest]
Director of the grant: Marian-Gabriel Hancean
AQuaRel aims to increase the understanding of how inequalities among researchers (i.e. in terms of research impact) develop within higher education national academic communities.
There are two research objectives: a) to analyze the impact of co-authorship personal networks on individual research performance; b) to identify and discuss individual and supra-individual strategies of publication inside national academic communities.
Specifically, the research objectives can be further operationalized as it follows: i.) predicting individual H scores (citation counts) having as predictors structural variables (e.g. number of components, degree of co-authorship ties, etc.) and compositional variables (e.g. alters’ H score / citation counts, nationality, university department affiliation, gender etc.). ii.) Exploring the compositional and structural features of the co-authorship personal networks (e.g. homophily degree, density, brokerage etc.). iii.) Identifying and visualizing different patterns and strategies of academic research productivity.
News
On April, 5, 2017, I gave a presentation on personal co-authorship networks at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB, Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences Division). The presentation was part of the Open Seminar "Academic Performance in Romania: Problems, Solutions and Measurement Tools". More details on the event are available here.
During 13 - 17 March, 2017, I attended the 46th GESIS Spring Seminar: Causal Inference with Observational Data, workshop on Structural Equation Models (SEMs). The workshop was conducted by Prof. Kenneth Bollen and Zachary Fisher. The workshop was organized in Cologne (Koln, DEU), by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
On November, 4, 2016, I gave an oral presentation at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest on the following topic: The Birds of a feather effect (homophily) and the Matthew effect in national academic communities. A personal network analysis research design.
During September, 28 - October, 1, 2016, I participated at the 4th International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS) hosted by the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (LBUS). At this international academic event I gave two oral presentations and organized two conference panels (see details here).
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Associate Professor,
Department of Sociology, University of Bucharest
gabriel.hancean@sas.unibuc.ro
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