Publishing rates of graduated education Ph.D. and Ed.D. students: A longitudinal study of University of California schools

This study investigated the publishing rates for Ed.D. and education Ph.D. graduates from 1999 to 2003 in the University of California school system as a function of degree type, campus location, student gender, and advisor gender. Random sampling resulted in 409 archival records from a dissertation database. A set of multi-journal databases were searched for publications by the authors of those 409 records, published within plus or minus 2 (+/-2) years of their graduation. This study provided the first opportunity to compare the publishing rates of Ed.D. and Ph.D. degrees in the same large school system.;There were twice the number of Ph.D. graduates (68.0%) compared to Ed.D. graduates (32.0%). Graduates were most commonly female (63.8%) while advisors were most often male (58.2%). Most of the graduates came from either UC Los Angeles (39.1%) or UC Berkeley (25.2%).;The research found 102 (36.7%) of the 278 Ph.D. graduates published 241 articles in the 5-year study range for a publishing rate of 0.472 publications per graduate per year. The alpha level for this study was set at alpha = .05. The most significant finding revealed that 36.7% of the Ph.D. graduates published at least one article, compared to 13.7% of the Ed.D. graduates. This was significant at the p = .001 level. This was also true for the male-only subsample and the female-only subsample. Male Ed.D. students published at a significantly lower rate than did the female Ed.D. students. The opposite was found for Ph.D. students but was not statistically significant. A significant difference was also found in publishing rates between Ed.D. and Ph.D. graduates within the same-gender and cross-gender student-advisor combinations.;There were no significant differences among graduating years, campus locations, or between genders. The percentage of graduates who published from 1999 to 2003 varied from 24.3% to 32.1%. Inter-campus publishing rates varied from 0.0% to 66.7%. By gender, 24.6% of males and 31.4% of females published at least one paper. No significant differences in publishing rates were noted for student-advisor gender match.