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
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 [...]
Open Access and Plan S in the News
On January 1, Science published a news story by Jeffrey Brainard about Plan S and Open Access publishing (the story is available here). Brainard's story describes Plan S (a mainly European initiative mandating free and immediate access to articles published [...]
AARC and the Open Access (OA) publication model
Director of Academic Analytics Research Center Anthony J. Olejniczak, Ph.D., talks about the Open Access (OA) publication model and AARC's recent article, coauthored with Dr. Molly Wilson. The new article, "Who’s writing open access (OA) articles? Characteristics of OA [...]
New AARC Journal Article: Who’s writing Open Access articles?
AARC strongly supports the Open Access (OA) publication model, and the overarching goals of Open Science. We are committed to depositing the datasets we produce for our projects in a publicly accessible repository, and we commit to produce only OA [...]
Is COVID-19 changing the research landscape?
The staff at AARC wish you well during this time of immense challenges for the Academy. In recent weeks, scholars from many disciplines have posted studies on the COVID-19 pandemic to preprint repositories, as evidenced by the continuously updated Twitter [...]