Publications

The DZHW Panel Study: Careers of PhD Holders 2014 is a panel study of the DZHW concerning the careers of doctoral graduates. The study analyses how the formal context as well as the learning and development conditions that PhD graduates experienced during their doctorate studies influence the transition into employment and the further development of their professional career, both within as well as outside academia. The basic population comprises all persons who obtained a doctorate degree from a higher education institution with the right to award doctorates in Germany in the examination year of 2014. [...] Full Abstract: https://doi.org/10.21249/DZHW:phd2014:6.0.0

The movement to promote responsible research assessment has gained ground in recent years. However, as Federico Vasen, Ismael Ràfols, and Emanuel Kulczycki discuss the transfer of these ideas from elite European systems to other contexts presents paradoxes and a range of governance challenges.

Social sciences (SS) research groups play a central role in advancing interdisciplinary knowledge. However, existing studies on the relationship between disciplinary diversity and scientific performance have predominantly focused on high-income countries and STEMM fields, leaving a gap in understanding these dynamics within SS research groups in middle- and low-income contexts. This study addresses this gap by examining the relationship between disciplinary diversity and scientific performance in SS research groups in Colombia. Drawing on national open-access data from the Colombian research groups national assessments (2013–2021), we analyze 3,640 group–year observations corresponding to 1,105 research groups.

The EUROSTUDENT project collects and analyses comparable data on the social dimension of European higher education. A wide range of topics related to students’ social and economic conditions are covered. The project strives to provide reliable and insightful cross-country comparisons. It does this through coupling a central coordination approach with a strong network of national partners in each participating country. In this way, an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the respective national frameworks in international comparison can be made. The main users of our findings are higher education policy-makers at national and European level, researchers [...] Full Abstract: https://doi.org/10.21249/DZHW:es8:4.0.0

Bots can be identified in online surveys by, amongst other things, conspicuously high completion rates, item non-response, insubstantial answers to open-ended questions, conspicuous response patterns in CATA questions, implausible completion times, inconsistent information, and through the analysis of metadata such as keystrokes.

Co-authored by Vasily Nalimov and Zinaida Mulchenko, Naukometriya (1969) introduced the term that came to name the field of scientometrics. However, the book itself had limited impact on the development of the field outside the Eastern Bloc. This paper examines how problems of translation shaped the global circulation of one of scientometrics’ foundational texts. We reconstruct the history of the book’s only English version, a 1971 machine translation produced with the Systran system for the U.S. Air Force, and assess its quality using the Multidimensional Quality Metrics framework.

Beyond a substantial increase in LS following the transition to VET, we find no significant average effect of VET-related migration on apprentices’ LS. However, we observe significant effect heterogeneity: migration to enter higher-status (versus lower-status) occupations and migration to urban (versus rural) regions yield larger (short-term) LS gains for apprentices. These results suggest that, beyond strictly VET-related factors, age-specific lifestyle amenities, which become accessible by moving towards urban regions, moderate the effects of internal migration on LS. Overall, our study illustrates the need to consider the specificity of life stages and coupled life events when analysing the effects of migration on LS.

We find that study resources and private resources (especially personal resources such as high self-efficacy) are substantially negatively correlated with the student burnout risk. While the burnout risk differs only slightly by social background, it is notably higher among women than among men, primarily because women consider their study demands to be higher and their personal resources to be lower. Overall, our study illustrates that social groups differ in terms of perceived study demands and resources—and therefore require tailored support to reduce the risk of burnout.

This paper examines the relationship between John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) and the Soviet approach to organize scientific information, focussing on the establishment of the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (VINITI).