Publication, Power, and Patronage: On Inequality and Academic Publishing

This data set accompanies our article, "Publication, Power, and Patronage: On Inequality and Academic Publishing," Critical Inquiry (July 2017): http://bit.ly/2vv5s2H<br>The data set contains metadata on institutional affiliation for over 5,000 academic articles published in four high-prestige journals within the humanities (PMLA, Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, Representations). Included in the metadata are the author's institutional affiliation at time of publication, the author's PhD institution, and the author's gender. 3,000+ authors are represented from over 300 PhD-granting institutions and 700 authorial institutions. We also include supplementary data on gender and publication on another 2,800 articles published since 2010 in 16 further journals. R code included to calculate all results, tables, and graphs.<br>