Replication Data for: Research Career Paths Among Political Scientists in Research Institutions

Considerable work assesses research success in political science. Yet the latter work has not taken account of widespread findings that scholars can follow a variety of career research paths that complicate how we envision scholarly success. Further, we have no systematic information on these career paths in any scientific discipline. I present an empirically validated research career path typology for political scientists who began their careers in research institutions. The typology demonstrates many scholars follow paths different from the most conventional expectations, and research success by measures of publications and citations is only associated with some of these paths. Thus existing research on aggregate publications and citations likely only addresses a subset of the career paths revealed here. Understanding research activities in our profession requires accounting for the various career paths, their motivations, and their places in our research community.

已有大量研究对政治学领域的学术成就展开评估。然而，此类研究尚未考虑学界已广泛证实的一项结论：学者可遵循多条职业研究路径，这一情况会使我们对学术成就的界定变得复杂。此外，目前尚无任何科学学科针对这类职业路径开展系统性的信息收集工作。本文针对职业生涯初始阶段就职于科研机构的政治学研究者，提出了一套经实证验证的职业研究路径分类体系。该分类体系显示，多数研究者所遵循的职业路径与主流认知存在差异；而以论文发表量与被引量为衡量指标的学术成就，仅与其中部分路径相关。因此，现有基于总发表量与总被引量的相关研究，仅能覆盖本文所揭示的职业路径中的一部分。要深入理解本学科的学术研究活动，必须充分考量各类职业路径、其背后的动因，以及它们在学术共同体中的定位。