Journal ArticleAmerican Sociological Review · October 1, 2025
Tens of thousands of scientists contribute to peer review as journal editors and reviewers of the millions of manuscripts submitted every year. How do they decide what is quality work? What values do they apply in evaluating which science merits publicatio ...
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ConferenceAcmf Acct 2025 Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency · June 23, 2025
LLMs have been celebrated for their potential to help multilingual scientists publish their research. Rather than interpret LLMs as a solution, we hypothesize their adoption can be an indicator of existing linguistic exclusion in scientific writing. Using ...
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Journal ArticleMinerva · January 1, 2025
The university has risen over nearly a thousand years, growing from a tiny Western outcrop between church and state into a great global behemoth—key to culture, action, and stratification. Even as it has grown and flourished, the university has been shadow ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Education Review · August 1, 2024
The status of women in academia, including comparative education, has grown rapidly. We build on the extensive literature on women’s work in the academy by investigating the macrohistorical cultural processes that promote expanded emphasis on feminist, gen ...
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Journal ArticleNature Machine Intelligence · July 1, 2024
The rapid proliferation of AI models has underscored the importance of thorough documentation, which enables users to understand, trust and effectively use these models in various applications. Although developers are encouraged to produce model cards, it’ ...
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Journal ArticleArchives Europeennes De Sociologie · December 20, 2023
Until the 19th century, the UK state stayed out of education. Only in 1833 would Parliament first pass an act that subsidized education for the poor. By 1914, 160 education acts had been passed, consolidating into the state schooling system we recognize to ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Science History · June 30, 2023
Early in the nineteenth century, members in the UK Parliament (MPs) hardly ever debated education. When they did, it was nearly always in the context of aid for the religious instruction of the poor. Indeed, even by 1850, nearly two decades after the first ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Sociological Review · June 1, 2023
What conditions enable novel intellectual contributions to diffuse and become integrated into later scientific work? Prior work tends to focus on whole cultural products, such as patents and articles, and emphasizes external social factors as important. Th ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · January 1, 2023
A promising approach to estimate the causal effects of peer review policies is to analyze data from publication venues that shift policies from single-blind to double-blind from one year to the next. However, in these settings the content of the manuscript ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Science History · December 9, 2022
Traditional accounts of state expansion and of the rise of state schooling in the nineteenth century emphasize economic, political, and social development as well as conflict and domination. These accounts explain the introduction of new state structures, ...
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Journal ArticleResearch Policy · January 1, 2022
Women and men often contribute differently to research knowledge. Do differences in these contributions partially explain disparities in academic career outcomes? We explore this by looking at how gender is embodied in research language, and then ascertain ...
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Journal ArticleCompare · March 4, 2017
To understand the relationship between social background and sex in schooling, we use Bourdieu’s theory of social reproduction and a feminist perspective of gender as practice. We pose two questions: (1) What is the relationship between economic and cultur ...
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