Nov
29th
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29th
Research productivity: what matters?
I stumbled upon this nice paper Social-Organizational Characteristics of Work and Publication Productivity among Academic Scientists in Doctoral-Granting Departments (Journal of Higher Education, 2007). I skimmed it and here are some sketchy conclusions:
- Being a man and having lots of male graduate students is highly correlated with productivity.
- Collaboration is strongly correlated with productivity. However, it is difficult to say whether there is any causality. It could be that when you…