Overview
My research interests include Organization Theory, Science of Science, Information Science, Economic Sociology. I recently concluded a multi-year project investigating the spread of predatory publishing in academia, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. My current research includes projects on social inequalities in academic peer review, as well as institutional hierarchies in undergraduate syllabus content.
Publications
2024. Siler, Kyle. “Labor Market Bottlenecks and Generational Crises in Modern Science.” Science and Public Policy, 51(2): 179–191.
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2022. Siler, Kyle and Vincent Larivière. “Who Games Metrics and Rankings? Status, Institutional Logics and Journal Impact Factor Inflation.” Research Policy, 51(10): 104608.
2022. Siler, Kyle. “Inequality Within Omnivorous Knowledge: Distribution of Jeopardy! Geography Questions, 1984-2020.” Poetics, 93(B): 101686.
2021. Siler, Kyle, Philippe Vincent-Lamarre, Cassidy Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière. “Predatory publishers’ latest scam: bootlegged and rebranded papers.” Nature, 598(7882): 563-565.
2020. Siler, Kyle. “Demarcating Spectrums of Predatory Publishing: Economic and Institutional Sources of Academic Legitimacy.”JASIST, 71(11): 1386-1401.
2020. Siler, Kyle and Koen Frenken. “The Pricing of Open Access Journals: Diverse Niches and Sources of Value in Academic Publishing.” Quantitative Science Studies, 1(1): 28-59.
2019. Siler, Kyle. “Pipelines on the Gridiron: Player Backgrounds, Opportunity Structures and Racial Stratification in American College Football.” Sociology of Sport Journal, 36(1): 57-76.