@article{1463482,
      recid = {1463482},
      author = {Korom, Philipp,},
      title = {Star sociologists : anatomy of a disciplinary elite /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {This book aims to overcome sociologys preoccupation with  individual authors by exploring a larger social phenomenon  that occurs in all academic disciplines but has been paid  little attention: the prestige elite. Members of this elite  attain the highest levels of peer recognition, their books  sometimes circulate by the hundreds of thousands, and every  student has read about them. Based on large citation  studies, Star Sociologists provides a roster of eminent  sociologists, documents the changing elites composition  over time, contrasts the elites career pathways with those  of the Nobel Laureates in economics, gives insights into  how scholars rise to or fall from eminence, and empirically  probes the gatekeeping power of one of its key proponents.  The book explores eminence by contextualising conditions  that are outside of the elite and argues that in any  discipline that is intellectually as disintegrated as  sociology, eminence is to be understand as a nested  phenomenon: scholars make it into the elite if their ideas  are adopted in very different intellectual fields that  share little common ground. Philipp Korom is a postdoc at  the University of Graz, Austria. Korom was recently awarded  the prestigious Gustav Figdor Award by the Austrian Academy  of Sciences for his research on academic elites.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1463482},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13938-3},
}