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Academic Professionalization

Academic Professionalization is the historical process by which academic disciplines and university-based knowledge production became institutionalized through standardized qualifications, specialized expertise, and autonomous scholarly communities, distinguishing itself from earlier forms of learned cultivation by its systematic adherence to meritocratic appointment, disciplinary boundaries, and career-based scholarly identity within Enlightenment-era universities.

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Authors

1.1K

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2017–2026

304

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Publications

1.6K

Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate

Lawrence Poston, Ernest L. Boyer · Academe · 1992 · 6.9K citations

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Academic capitalism: politics, policies, and the entrepreneurial university

Choice Reviews Online · 1998 · 4K citations

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Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines.

Alan E. Bayer, Tony Becher, Milton Keynes · The Journal of Higher Education · 1991 · 2.6K citations

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Becoming a scientist: The role of undergraduate research in students' cognitive, personal, and professional development

Anne‐Barrie Hunter, Sandra L. Laursen, Elaine Seymour · Science Education · 2006 · 1.3K citations

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The “Gender Gap” in Authorship of Academic Medical Literature — A 35-Year Perspective

Reshma Jagsi, Elizabeth A. Guancial, Cynthia Cooper Worobey et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2006 · 872 citations

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Authors

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  1. PL
    Phyllis L. Carr

    Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

    9 publications · 1.1K citations

    9

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  2. LH
    Linda H. Pololi

    Brandeis University, United States

    8 publications · 1.1K citations

    8

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  3. MF
    Martín Finkelstein

    Seton Hall University, United States

    7 publications · 585 citations

    7

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  4. JN
    Jon Nixon

    University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 555 citations

    7

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  5. BM
    Bruce Macfarlane

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 770 citations

    6

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Institutions

1.1K

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    19 h-index

    45 publications

    7.1K citations

  2. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    15 h-index

    38 publications

    1.2K citations

  3. University of Technology Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    13 h-index

    19 publications

    1.9K citations

  4. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    12 h-index

    16 publications

    984 citations

  5. Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, United States

    11 h-index

    16 publications

    3K citations

  6. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    11 h-index

    18 publications

    870 citations

  7. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    11 h-index

    26 publications

    899 citations

  8. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    11 h-index

    30 publications

    1.1K citations

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Venues

  1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 70 publications · 5.5K citations

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  2. Studies in Higher Education

    47 publications · 3.9K citations

    31

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  3. Academic Medicine

    57 publications · 2.4K citations

    27

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  4. Higher Education

    32 publications · 2.4K citations

    26

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  5. The Journal of Higher Education

    JHE · 40 publications · 5.7K citations

    25

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