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A study of 25 years of publication outputs in the German academic profession

dc.date.accessioned2022-04-14T11:11:24Z
dc.date.available2022-04-14T11:11:24Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-11
dc.identifierdoi:10.17170/kobra-202201255610
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13757
dc.description.sponsorshipGefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEALger
dc.description.sponsorshipBundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, M522200ger
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectacademic professioneng
dc.subjectGermany as weak evaluation stateeng
dc.subjectvalorization of performanceeng
dc.subjectperformance-based fundingeng
dc.subjectpublication outputseng
dc.subject.ddc370
dc.titleA study of 25 years of publication outputs in the German academic professioneng
dc.typeAufsatz
dcterms.abstractIn the weak evaluation state of Germany, full professors are involved in the traditional social governance partnership between the state, and the self-governing higher education institutions (HEI) and disciplinary associations. Literature suggests that formal and informal governance could trigger changes in academics’ publication behavior by valorizing certain publication outputs. In the article, secondary data from three surveys (1992, 2007 and 2018) is used for a multi-level study of the evolution of academics’ publication behavior. We find a trend toward the “model” of natural science publication behavior across all disciplines. On the organizational level, we observe that a strong HEI research performance orientation is positively correlated with journal articles, peer-reviewed publications, and co-publications with international co-authors. HEI performance-based funding is only positively correlated with the share of peer-reviewed publications. At the level of individual disciplines, humanities and social sciences scholars adapt to the peer-reviewed journal publication paradigm of the natural sciences at the expense of book publications. Considering how the academic profession is organized around reputation and status, it seems plausible that the academic profession and its institutional oligarchy are key contexts for the slow but steady change of academics’ publication behavior. The trend of changing academics’ publication behavior is partly related to HEI valorization of performance and (to a lesser extent) to HEI performance based-funding schemes, which are set by the strong academic profession in the weak evaluation state of Germany.eng
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
dcterms.creatorSchneijderberg, Christian
dcterms.creatorGötze, Nicolai
dcterms.creatorMüller, Lars
dc.relation.doidoi:10.1007/s11192-021-04216-2
dc.relation.projectidM522200
dc.subject.swdDeutschlandger
dc.subject.swdWissenschaftger
dc.subject.swdProfessionalisierungger
dc.subject.swdVeröffentlichungger
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dcterms.source.identifiereissn:1588-2861
dcterms.source.issueIssue 1
dcterms.source.journalScientometricseng
dcterms.source.pageinfo1-28
dcterms.source.volumeVolume 127
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