J. Scott Long is a distinguished professor of statistics and sociology at Indiana University Bloomington.
[1] This was followed by graduate education at Cornell University, where Long finished both his masters in 1973 and Ph.D. in 1977.
[1] His career began by studying the dynamics of how doctoral graduates progress through scientific fields using data collected from biochemists.
[2] Following this, his research focused on the differences in career outcomes among male and female doctoral graduates, chairing a congressionally mandated committee of the National Academy of Sciences in the process.
[2] Over the course of his career, Dr. Long has published over seventy peer reviewed works in the field.