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Who Publishes in Comparative Politics? Studying the World from the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2007

Gerardo L. Munck  and
Richard Snyder
Gerardo L. Munck
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Richard Snyder
Affiliation:
Brown University
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Who publishes in the discipline's leading journals is a matter of intrinsic interest to political scientists. Indeed, any discipline is first and foremost about the people who practice it. A focus on who publishes also raises important questions concerning the relationship between the characteristics of authors, such as their gender, seniority, institutional affiliation, and nationality, and the knowledge they produce. Is who publishes associated with what is published? Moreover, publications in leading journals are an important marker of professional status and a key conduit for the diffusion of ideas. This points to a further question: Do the top journals differ in terms of the authors and research they publish?We are grateful to Angela Hawken for her advice on the construction of the data set, to Matthew Lieber for his assistance with data collection, and to PS's two anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 339 - 346
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© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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