Professional Publishing Trends of Recent GPS Doctoral Students

Leo A. Mallette

Abstract:	There are 2413 doctoral dissertations that refer to GPS, but only 197 that relate to both GPS and navigation. Of those, 100 have been published since 2000. These 100 authors are the subject of this paper. A search was performed for the authors of these 100 dissertations in the IEEE Xplore® database. This paper shows the statistical results of this research. It includes how many of these dissertation authors published from 1995 through 2005, what are their publishing rates, analysis by year, degree, gender, university, and country. The significance of this work is that it quantifies for the first time, the significant academic activity related to GPS at the doctoral level and the scholarly publishing activity (or lack thereof) that those dissertation authors produce. This study found 100 doctoral graduates from 2000 to 2005 with GPS and navigation in their abstract graduate at the rate of about 16 per year, 90% were Ph.D.s, from 40 schools, were 80% male, and were from eight countries. It was found that 10% of all graduates published in IEEE peer reviewed journals, and 39% published in both IEEE peer reviewed journals and conferences. The 39 authors published 80 articles in journals and conferences – 95% of the papers were written by male doctoral graduates, 4% by female doctoral graduates, and 1% by doctoral graduates with names of unknown gender. Dissertations have many characteristics such as integrity and objectivity, and “high-quality research should be characterized by publication” [1, p. 15]. This research study will provide an accurate description of doctoral publishing in the GPS navigation field because “unless researchers first generate an accurate description of an educational phenomenon as it exists, they lack a firm basis for explaining or changing it” [2, p. 374].
Published in:	Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2006 April 25 - 27, 2006 Loews Coronado Resort Hotel San Diego, CA
Pages:	1164 - 1172
Cite this article:	Mallette, Leo A., "Professional Publishing Trends of Recent GPS Doctoral Students," Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2006, San Diego, CA, April 2006, pp. 1164-1172. https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2006.1650726
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