Authors
Samuel F Way, Allison C Morgan, Aaron Clauset, Daniel B Larremore
Publication date
2017/10/31
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume
114
Issue
44
Pages
E9216-E9223
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Description
A scientist may publish tens or hundreds of papers over a career, but these contributions are not evenly spaced in time. Sixty years of studies on career productivity patterns in a variety of fields suggest an intuitive and universal pattern: Productivity tends to rise rapidly to an early peak and then gradually declines. Here, we test the universality of this conventional narrative by analyzing the structures of individual faculty productivity time series, constructed from over 200,000 publications and matched with hiring data for 2,453 tenure-track faculty in all 205 PhD-granting computer science departments in the United States and Canada. Unlike prior studies, which considered only some faculty or some institutions, or lacked common career reference points, here we combine a large bibliographic dataset with comprehensive information on career transitions that covers an entire field of study. We show that the conventional …
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Scholar articles
SF Way, AC Morgan, A Clauset, DB Larremore - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017