New Meta-Research: Researchers looked for evidence that researchers became less productive over their careers.
Instead they found the opposite for math and computer science: Junior faculty in those areas are not as productive as the professors with 30+ years of experience.
4 Responses to “Comparing Research Productivity Across Disciplines and Career Stages”
February 5
Zdravko Smilevski’tis true, then!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/newly-tenured-professor-now-inspired-to-work-harde,35169/
February 5
Ben KuhnFrom the paper:
> Holding demographic and employment factors constant, early career stage faculty are more productive than late career stage faculty in the following disciplines: computer and information sciences, health, and physical sciences, giving support to hypothesis 2 which states that early career stage faculty members in rapidly advancing disciplines (computer science, health, physical sciences) are utility maximizers. They are likely to produce more journal articles than mid and late career stage faculty members. The findings also support hypothesis 3, in which late career stage faculty members in computer science, physical science, and health produce fewer journal articles than mid and late career stage faculty members, thus giving support to the obsolescence theory.
This seems to imply the opposite of what you wrote, for computer science at least. (They do say that the evidence supports cumulative advantage effect dominating in math.)
February 5
Louie HelmGood point. I’m confused by that paragraph. I read it but disregarded it because it disagreed with their data in Table 5 and 6.
February 6
Daniel SatanoveNewly tenured professor working hard teaching high school precalc