The academic profession is as heavily internally divided as never before. In this cross-national comparative study, a sample of European academic scientists (N=8,466) from universities in 11 countries is used to analyze three stratification types in higher education. They are termed ‘academic performance stratification’, ‘academic salary stratification’, and ‘international research stratification’. This emergent stratification of the global scientific community is predominantly research-based, and internationalization in research is at its center. This study views research as purely prestige-driven, internationally competitive, at the heart of academic recognition systems – and as the single most stratifying factor at the level of individual scientists in the higher education enterprise today. The stratification processes are pulling different segments of the academic profession in different directions; specifically, the study analyzes highly productive academics (“research top performers”), highly paid academics (“academic top earners”), and highly internationalized academics (”internationalists” in research). Implications at the micro-level of individual scientists, meaning what to do and what not to do and why, are explored.

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高等教育中的社会分层：在个体学术科学家的微观层面意味着什么

学术界的内部分歧前所未有。在这项跨国比较研究中，来自 11 个国家的大学的欧洲学术科学家（N=8,466）样本被用来分析高等教育的三种分层类型。它们被称为“学术绩效分层”、“学术薪酬分层”和“国际研究分层”。全球科学界的这种新兴分层主要以研究为基础，研究的国际化是其核心。本研究将研究视为纯粹以声望为导向的、具有国际竞争力的、处于学术认可系统的核心——并且是当今高等教育企业中单个科学家水平的最重要的分层因素。分层过程将学术界的不同部分拉向不同的方向；具体而言，该研究分析了高产学者（“研究表现最佳者”）、高薪学者（“学术高收入者”）和高度国际化的学者（研究中的“国际主义者”）。探索了个体科学家微观层面的含义，即该做什么和不该做什么以及为什么。