Academic Analytics Research Center
AARC conflict of interest disclosure: Anthony Olejniczak, Ph.D. co-founded Academic Analytics in 2005 and divested himself of all equity interest and management responsibilities in 2019 to establish the Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC). As an employee of Academic Analytics with no other financial relationship or managerial role within the company, Anthony directs AARC independently and without oversight from Academic Analytics management (Anthony chooses projects and collaborators, and Academic Analytics management do not review or approve research outputs). Anthony and AARC are committed to producing publicly available datasets for all their projects and to publish only open access materials.
AARC News and Events
Replay: Who’s Publishing Open Access Articles?
Last week, AARC researchers Dr. Molly J. Wilson and Dr. Anthony J. Olejniczak discussed their recent paper Who’s writing Open Access (OA) articles? Characteristics of OA authors at Ph.D. granting institutions in the USA with a live audience [...]
Who’s being honored in academia?
Academic Analytics matches a huge number of honorific awards (10,000+) to individual scholars in the American academy. AARC researchers recently began digging through this data trove, and some summary statistics by discipline offer a glimpse into the deeper patterns we're [...]
The preprint conundrum for bibliometric databases
Preprints have been around for a few decades, but posting preprints to a repository has only become the new normal for scholars in recent years. Preprints allow researchers to stake a claim to their ideas and results by establishing a [...]
Should interdisciplinary comparisons of journal article publications use the mean or median?
AARC scholars work with many datasets describing the publication outputs of research faculty. These datasets are almost always zero-inflated, or at least are skewed toward the lower end of the distribution. This phenomenon is so common we’ve even changed how [...]
What are the biggest fields in Ph.D. education?
Scholars at AARC are working hard on a project aimed at quantifying the dizzying growth of Ph.D. education in the US over the past 25 years (more on that project in a few months). As we looked at the number [...]
Are some academic fields “older” than others?
AARC scholars have a manuscript in review about the graying of the American professoriate (see the preprint here: 10.31235/osf.io/vznty). As we explored the publication patterns of early career, middle career, and senior scholars, a basic question emerged that we didn’t [...]