Daniel Scott Smith

Journal article American 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

The University: Exalted Institution and Ruined Organization

Journal article Minerva · 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

World Society, Women Authors, and the Expansion of Feminist, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality (FGSS) Research in Comparative Education, 1957–2010

Journal article Comparative 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 ... Full text Cite

Can Large Language Models Provide Useful Feedback on Research Papers? A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis

Journal article NEJM AI · July 25, 2024 Full text Cite

Systematic analysis of 32,111 AI model cards characterizes documentation practice in AI

Journal article Nature 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’ ... Full text Cite

The Making of the Modern State: Social Scientization and Education Legislation in the United Kingdom, 1800-1914

Journal article Archives 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 ... Full text Cite

Visions of deliverance: Social scientization, functionalism, and the expansive purposiveness of state schooling in nineteenth-century British parliamentary politics

Journal article Social 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 ... Full text Cite

How New Ideas Diffuse in Science

Journal article American 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 ... Full text Cite

Social Scientization and the Schooling State in UK Parliamentary Discourse, 1803-1909

Journal article Social 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, ... Full text Cite

Gendered knowledge in fields and academic careers

Journal article Research 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 ... Full text Cite

Social reproduction and sex in German primary schools

Journal article Compare · 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 ... Full text Cite