Gender and retention patterns among US faculty

K Spoon, N LaBerge, KH Wapman, S Zhang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields. Using a
census of 245,270 tenure-track and tenured professors at United States–based PhD …

Labor advantages drive the greater productivity of faculty at elite universities

S Zhang, KH Wapman, DB Larremore, A Clauset - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Faculty at prestigious institutions dominate scientific discourse, producing a disproportionate
share of all research publications. Environmental prestige can drive such epistemic …

The Howard‐Harvard effect: Institutional reproduction of intersectional inequalities

D Kozlowski, T Monroe‐White… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The production of research and faculty in the US higher education system is concentrated
within a few institutions. Concentration of research and resources affects minoritized …

A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design

F Hermans, A Schlesinger - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGPLAN …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Two critical and interrelated questions regarding the design and study of programming
languages are: 1) What does it mean to design a programming language? and 2) Why does …

Understanding fraudulence in online qualitative studies: From the researcher's perspective

A Panicker, N Nurain, Z Ibrahim, CH Wang… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Researchers are increasingly facilitating qualitative research studies online. While this has
made research more accessible for participation, there have been notable encounters with …

The gendered lens of AI: examining news imagery across digital spaces

Y Chen, Y Zhai, S Sun - Journal of Computer-Mediated …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This study investigates gender representation in artificial intelligence (AI)-related images
across various digital spaces to understand potential biases and visual narratives in the AI …

Scientific productivity as a random walk

S Zhang, N LaBerge, SF Way, DB Larremore… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The expectation that scientific productivity follows regular patterns over a career underpins
many scholarly evaluations, including hiring, promotion and tenure, awards, and grant …

Quantifying gendered citation imbalance in computer science conferences

K Nakajima, Y Sasaki, S Tokuno… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
The number of citations received by papers often exhibits imbalances in terms of author
attributes such as country of affiliation and gender. While recent studies have quantified …

Programming Language Case Studies Can Be Deep

R Bohrer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.08091, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the pedagogy of programming languages, one well-known course structure is to tour
multiple languages as a means of touring paradigms. This tour-of-paradigms approach has …

An Analysis of Academic Hiring Research and Practice and a Lens for the Future: How Labor Justice Can Make a Better Academy

LD Gonzales, D Culpepper, J Anderson - Higher Education: Handbook of …, 2024 - Springer
Colleges and universities are formidable knowledge-producing spaces in society. At the
heart of these knowledge producing spaces are academics who carry out teaching …