Kevin J. Dougherty

Kevin J. Dougherty publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Kevin J. Dougherty D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Best Publications

• The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College

  Kevin James Dougherty

  754
  Citations

• It's Not Enough to Get Through the Open Door: Inequalities by Social Background in Transfer from Community Colleges to Four-Year Colleges

  Kevin J. Dougherty;Gregory S. Kienzl

  517
  Citations

• Community Colleges and Baccalaureate Attainment.

  Kevin J. Dougherty

  516
  Citations

• The Effects of Community Colleges: Aid or Hindrance to Socioeconomic Attainment?.

  Kevin Dougherty

  465
  Citations

• Performance Funding for Higher Education

  Kevin J. Dougherty;Sosanya M. Jones;Hana Lahr;Rebecca S. Natow

  379
  Citations

• Community college missions: A theoretical and historical perspective

  Kevin J. Dougherty;Barbara K. Townsend

  347
  Citations

• The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College.

  Unknown

  270
  Citations

• The Impacts of State Performance Funding Systems on Higher Education Institutions: Research Literature Review and Policy Recommendations

  Kevin J. Dougherty;Vikash T. Reddy

  213
  Citations

• Undocumented Immigrants and State Higher Education Policy: The Politics of In-State Tuition Eligibility in Texas and Arizona

  Kevin J. Dougherty;H. Kenny Nienhusser;Blanca E. Vega

  188
  Citations

• The uncertain future of the community college workforce development mission

  James Jacobs;Kevin J. Dougherty

  185
  Citations

• Accounting for Higher Education Accountability: Political Origins of State Performance Funding for Higher Education.

  Kevin J. Dougherty;Rebecca S. Natow;Rachel Hare Bork;Sosanya M. Jones

  178
  Citations

• The New Economic Development Role of the Community College

  Kevin J. Dougherty;Marianne F. Bakia

  172
  Citations

• The Community College at the Crossroads: The Need for Structural Reform

  Kevin J. Dougherty

  148
  Citations

• The Evolving Role of the Community College: Policy Issues and Research Questions

  Kevin J. Dougherty

  143
  Citations

• Community Colleges and Contract Training: Content, Origins, and Impact

  Kevin J. Dougherty;Marianne F. Bakia

  134
  Citations

• Popular but Unstable: Explaining Why State Performance Funding Systems in the United States Often Do Not Persist

  Kevin J. Dougherty;Rebecca S. Natow;Blanca E. Vega

  132
  Citations

• Performance Funding for Higher Education

  Unknown

  106
  Citations

• Performance Funding for Higher Education: What Are the Mechanisms What Are the Impacts

  Kevin Dougherty;Vikash Reddy

  104
  Citations

• Looking Inside the Black Box of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Policy Instruments, Organizational Obstacles, and Intended and Unintended Impacts

  Kevin J. Dougherty;Sosanya M. Jones;Hana Elizabeth Lahr;Rebecca Spiro Natow

  88
  Citations

• The Politics of Performance Funding in Eight States: Origins, Demise, and Change

  Kevin J. Dougherty;Rebecca Spiro Natow;Rachel Julia Hare Bork;Sosanya M. Jones

  85
  Citations