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Burns University of Waikato  \nAdam Rajčan  \nUniversity of Western Australia & La Trobe University  \nIn this article, we investigated the publishing practices of Australian sociology PhD students during enrolment. It examines a five-year cohort of PhD completions 2013-17 from sociology departments and interdisciplinary schools of social sciences for all Australian universities. The key question considered is: do sociology PhD students publish in sociology journals? We used the Web of Science (WoS) to analyse disciplinary classification of journals where students’ articles were published. By a ratio of 1:10, students’ articles mostly appeared in non-sociology journals. We then compared these data with a recent study of new sociology faculty in the United States, who showed a similar diversity in publication patterns beyond recognised sociology journals. These empirical data contribute to debates about the adequacy of the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) framework: is practically technically correct if that can be done in measuring sociology’s contribution when a major part of this exists outside conventional output metrics. Formal systems like Scopus and WoS provide extensive sets of data for comparing research outputs including by disciplinary classification; these journal indexes of research articles are commonly taken as a basic measure of research quality by universities and ERA. WoS journal disciplinary classification provided a useful basis of comparison with Warren’s data on sociology in the US.  \nKeywords: sociology, sociology journals, PhD students, publishing  \nIntroduction  \nAustralian sociology doctoral students represent the newest cohort of academics and researchers in the discipline and the future of its workforce. Their sociological training during enrolment and the influence of supervisors and academic programs and departments would suggest that, except for specialised instances, the output of their research would appear mostly in sociology and related journals. The reality is, however, much more complicated. Factors such as the pushto interdisciplinarity, the constant merging and re-arranging  \nof social science organisational units, and the rebundling of academic staff and research clusters, create a range of consequences. At the university level, managerial focus on the organisation-wide impact of research that brings in funding accords selective attention to disciplinary contribution. This works to the disadvantage of sociology’s broad combination of theoretical and empirical skills.  \nWithin this contemporary Australian academic milieu, the present article reports findings about the journal publication practices of the most recent cohort of Australian sociology PhD students. The focus here is across all Australian  \nvol. 63, no. 2, 2021 The publishing practices of Australian sociology PhD students Edgar A. Burns & Adam Rajčan 3  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nuniversities and all sociology PhD completions within main sociology teaching organisational units (i.e., Schools of Social Sciences or Sociology Departments). We have examined PhD completions with a significant component of sociology as defined by Fields of Research (FoR) codes (ABS, 2008) that are outside these organisational units in other schools and research centres within universities, but these are not included in the analysis presented here.  \nThe data described in this article show that, rather than a coherent and disciplinary specific publishing program, these recent sociology PhD completers have published in a wide range of journals, as described below. For a fuller description of the method of selection of PhDs, see Rajčan and Burns (2020). Personal motivation and expectations that led to this diversity of publication outl","cbCaickV6FK5Br5J","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaickV6FK5Br5J","pdf",177015,"English","# Introduction\n## Research focus and cohort description\n## Data sources and analytical approach\n## Findings on disciplinary journal patterns\n## Implications for ERA and research measurement","[{\"question\":\"What is the article’s main research question?\",\"answer\":\"It asks whether Australian sociology PhD students achieve journal outputs in sociology journals.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the study analyze where students publish?\",\"answer\":\"It uses the Web of Science to examine the disciplinary classification of journals where students’ articles were published.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the results suggest about journal publication patterns?\",\"answer\":\"By a stated ratio of 1:10, students’ articles mostly appear in non-sociology journals rather than sociology journals.\"}]","The publishing practices of Australian sociology PhD students - Investigating journal outputs | PDF",1792080419]