Many sociologists suspect that publication expectations have risen over time—that how much graduate students have published to get assistant professor jobs and how much assistant professors have published to be promoted have gone up. Using information about faculty in 21 top sociology departments from the American Sociological Association’s Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology, online curricula vitae, and other public records, I provide empirical evidence to support this suspicion. On the day they start their first jobs, new assistant professors in recent years have already published roughly twice as much as their counterparts did in the early 1990s. Trends for promotion to associate professor are not as dramatic but are still remarkable. I evaluate several potential explanations for these trends and conclude that they are driven mainly by changes over time in the fiscal and organizational realities of universities and departments.

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您需要发布多少才能在高级社会学系找到工作？还是要获得任期？一代人的趋势

许多社会学家怀疑出版物的期望随着时间的推移而上升了-有多少研究生出版了以找到助理教授的工作，以及有多少助理教授出版了要晋升的书。利用美国社会学协会社会学研究生系指南，在线履历和其他公共记录中有关21个顶级社会学系教职员工的信息，我提供了经验证据来支持这种怀疑。在他们开始第一份工作的那天，近年来新聘的助理教授的出版量大约是1990年代初同行的两倍。晋升为副教授的趋势虽然不那么剧烈，但仍然很引人注目。