- Title
- The significance and impact of winning an academic award : a study of early career academics
- Creator
- Ren, Jing; Shi, Yajie; Shatte, Adrian; Kong, Xiangjie; Xia, Feng
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/192251
- Identifier
- vital:17973
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3529372.3530913
- Identifier
- ISBN:1552-5996 (ISSN); 9781450393454 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- Academic award plays an important role in an academic's careerparticularly for early career academics. Previous studies have primarilyfocused on the impact of awards conferred to academics whoe made outstanding contributions to a specific research field, such as the Nobel Prize. In contrast, this paper aims to investigatethe effect of awards conferred to academics at an earlier careerstage, who have the potential to make a great impact in the future. We devise a metric named Award Change Factor (ACF), to evaluatethe change of a recipient's academic behavior after winningan academic award. Next, we propose a model to compare awardrecipients with academics who have similar performance beforewinning an academic award. In summary, we analyze the impact ofan award on the recipients' academic impact and their teams fromdifferent perspectives. Experimental results show that most recipientsdo have improvements in both productivity and citations afterwinning an academic award, while there is no significant impacton publication quality. In addition, receipt of an academic awardnot only expands recipients' collaboration network, but also has apositive effect on their team size. © 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. All rights reserved.
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Relation
- 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2022, Virtual, online, 20-24 June 2022, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc
- Subject
- Academic award; Academic performance; Scholarly big data; Scientometrics
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