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DTSTART:20180925T170500Z
DTEND:20180925T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20260419T021337Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Changes in excellence among United States research universitie
 s\, Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar\, Rogers Hollingsworth\, UW Depart
 ments of Sociology and History
DESCRIPTION:What are the explanations for changes in excellence in Ame
 rican research universities? The classic answers to this problem were 
 variations on Robert Merton’s elaboration of the “Matthew” effec
 t in science – those who have abundance will accumulate advantage an
 d those who have not will continue to be disadvantaged. Numerous analy
 sts have addressed the Matthew effect when explaining inequality in re
 search excellence among individual scientists as well as universities.
 
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\nThis presentation demonstrates that the Mertonian explanation is
  not correct when analyzing long-term changes in recognition of excell
 ence among American research universities. It focuses on the considera
 ble instability in the ranking of excellence in the basic biological s
 ciences over many decades. It demonstrates that recognition for excell
 ence of research universities is distributed into six patterns\, the a
 nalysis and explanation of which is the major focus of the presentatio
 n.
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\nIt is a small part of the study of changes over many decades i
 n research excellence among universities in France\, Great Britain\, t
 he United States\, and Germany with soft comparisons to universities i
 n Sweden and Japan.
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\nThe data for the presentation is based on re-
 analysis of data collected at various time points by the American Coun
 cil of Education\, the National Research Council\, and citation indice
 s by ISI-Thompson Reuters. The data are also based on 596 in-depth int
 erviews of scientists by Hollingsworth in the six named countries over
  thirty years (some scientists were interviewed on multiple occasions 
 for a total of 913 interviews). See https://go.wisc.edu/tt4tf6 for the
  names\, exact dates\, and places of the interviews. Data sources and 
 methodology for rankings are available at https://go.wisc.edu/16vxo2.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4877
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