SocCard Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 Just curious, how many applicants have publications on their CV? Anyone have a pub in a decent journal?
Happy to be here Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 I've got a book review forthcoming, which is not a real research publication. Other than that, just paper presentations.
Roll Right Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 Paper presentations here as well. No research pieces as of yet in any journals. That may change soon, fingers crossed.
Medievalmaniac Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 Just curious, how many applicants have publications on their CV? Anyone have a pub in a decent journal? I have an article in the Virginia English Bulletin, a chapter in an MLA edited collection of essays (forthcoming), and multiple articles in subject-specific encyclopediae from Brill and Routledge, as well as nonfiction essays and poems in regional and national journals. Also, book reviews in Hortulus, the online graduate journal in medieval studies. I am currently working on a chapter for an edited collection of essays on Chaucer from Boydell and Brewer.
Karlito Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 Wow, not bad! All this as a grad student I hope? I am undergrad and have pretty much nothing yet...
barilicious Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 I have a co-author paper under revise and resubmit with a pretty great peer-reviewed scholarly journal. I only have a BA as well. It was my senior thesis, and my professor liked my research a lot, and after I graduated from undergrad, we collaborated together on it to make it better. He became the 2nd author to the research, and our R&R is back under review at the moment. Also, the research I conducted while abroad (which I used as my writing sample) I plan on submitting *hopefully* next month to a different peer-reviewed journal. So I hope to have 2 publications under my belt before I even start grad school, but that may just be wishful thinking. Just know it is never to early to start trying to get published. The worst that can happen is you get a reject, but with the reject, you typically get great reviews on your work, which you can take, improve it, and submit it somewhere else. I say start now if you plan on being in academia forever!
myrrh Posted January 19, 2011 Posted January 19, 2011 It's impressive that an applicant to grad school has a published paper. Some of the applicants to top institutions would have book chapters or conference presentations, but journal article are kinda rare, so it's a good sign. However, I believe top schools emphasize the quality of your work rather than a citation on your CV, and your paper might probably even hurt you if 1) it's published on a bad journal and you treat it as an achievement; or 2) the paper is your writing sample and it's not a good one.
allisonmc24 Posted January 19, 2011 Posted January 19, 2011 Just curious, how many applicants have publications on their CV? Anyone have a pub in a decent journal? I have a handbook chapter forthcoming, as well as an article in a peer-reviewed journal (2nd author on both). I also have my senior thesis and another co-authored manuscript under review.
Lev Bronstein Posted January 19, 2011 Posted January 19, 2011 I'm fifth author on an article in an unrelated discipline! But seriously, I don't think folks coming from undergrad are expected to have publications. Grad students -- maybe a book review or co-authorship. The profs I talked to from 11-30 ranked schools seemed to be impressed that I had roundtable presentations.
SocCard Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 I have a co-author paper under revise and resubmit with a pretty great peer-reviewed scholarly journal. I only have a BA as well. It was my senior thesis, and my professor liked my research a lot, and after I graduated from undergrad, we collaborated together on it to make it better. He became the 2nd author to the research, and our R&R is back under review at the moment. Also, the research I conducted while abroad (which I used as my writing sample) I plan on submitting *hopefully* next month to a different peer-reviewed journal. So I hope to have 2 publications under my belt before I even start grad school, but that may just be wishful thinking. Just know it is never to early to start trying to get published. The worst that can happen is you get a reject, but with the reject, you typically get great reviews on your work, which you can take, improve it, and submit it somewhere else. I say start now if you plan on being in academia forever! It's nice when your advisor takes your work on to help you get it published. I'm glad to hear he didn't take first-authorship!
hoobers Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 In any given year, there are only 5-10 PhDs on the job market with top tier publications. So, there is definitely no requirement for an excellent pub from someone just applying to a PhD program. By the way, via OrgTheory, crowdsourced soc journal rankings: http://www.allourideas.org/socjournals
Bonkers Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 I have a research paper that my PI/advisor and I are editing for journal submission. However, I have a MA, so I should have SOMETHING at this point in my life. I think it is fine that you, newly done with BA, do not have a publication yet. With that said, you should have some research experience at the least.
SocCard Posted January 21, 2011 Author Posted January 21, 2011 In any given year, there are only 5-10 PhDs on the job market with top tier publications. So, there is definitely no requirement for an excellent pub from someone just applying to a PhD program. I'm not so sure this is accurate, at least not in the current job market. My department is currently interviewing applicants for an open position and we've had a very large number of individuals with publications in AJS, ASR, and a number of highly ranked journals in specific errors or concentration (most notably, Criminologists with pubs in in the ASC journal). We had well over 150 applicants--nearly all of whom were well qualified for the position. It is an extremely competative job market and we immediately cut individuals with degrees from "lower" institutions and publications in low ranked journals (basically, anyone with a PhD from an unranked program was cut). Our top ten list of candidates comprised of PhDs from Chicago, Penn, Maryland ect...The lowest pedigree to make the cut was an individual with a PhD from North Carolina State (who also had a pub in AJS).
going crazy Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 (edited) Just curious, how many applicants have publications on their CV? Anyone have a pub in a decent journal? I've got two solo-authored publications in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies (not a top tier journal by any stretch, but peer-reviewed nonetheless) and two solos currently under review. One in Qualitative Sociology and one in Review of Religious Research. Outside of that, several presentations at conferences. Who knows whether any of that will help out? Edited January 21, 2011 by going crazy
hoobers Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 I'm not so sure this is accurate, at least not in the current job market. My department is currently interviewing applicants for an open position and we've had a very large number of individuals with publications in AJS, ASR, and a number of highly ranked journals in specific errors or concentration (most notably, Criminologists with pubs in in the ASC journal). We had well over 150 applicants--nearly all of whom were well qualified for the position. It is an extremely competative job market and we immediately cut individuals with degrees from "lower" institutions and publications in low ranked journals (basically, anyone with a PhD from an unranked program was cut). Our top ten list of candidates comprised of PhDs from Chicago, Penn, Maryland ect...The lowest pedigree to make the cut was an individual with a PhD from North Carolina State (who also had a pub in AJS). To clarify, I meant junior faculty with AJS or ASR only. It sounds like we might stilll have to disagree on this one, though. I counted 7 or 8 of these total this year.
SocCard Posted January 22, 2011 Author Posted January 22, 2011 To clarify, I meant junior faculty with AJS or ASR only. It sounds like we might stilll have to disagree on this one, though. I counted 7 or 8 of these total this year. Fair enough--we did have a number of applicants who were obviously deined tenure at their current institution who had a pub in AJS or ASR but had little (or nothing) else. Maybe we can settle on 8-12
frenchfries Posted February 13, 2011 Posted February 13, 2011 I have two book reviews and one article in an online journal.
suerte Posted February 13, 2011 Posted February 13, 2011 I have co-authored two articles in peer-reviewed journals, in another social science discipline. But then again, things aren't looking that great for me this round.
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