This paper examines the common contentions that the collective aging of tenured academic
staff has negative effects on research performance of universities due to (a) negative effects …

Biological age is an important sociodemographic factor in studies on academic careers
(research productivity, scholarly impact, and collaboration patterns). It is assumed that the …

In academia, faculty are bound by three pillars of scholarship: Teaching, Research and
Service. Academic promotion and tenure depend on metrics of assessment for these three …

This paper analyzes the relationship between age and productivity for Nobel prize winners
in science during the period 1901–1992. The relationship found is field dependent as well …

In this chapter, we explore the shifting nature of academic work at European and US
research universities. Our analyses reveal four trends. First, despite significant differences in …

The National Science Foundation (NSF) estimates that there were approximately 32,000
postdoctoral appointees in science and engineering at US universities in the fall of 2002 …

We analyze the role of social capital in academic careers. We distinguish between ties with
reputed scientists and laboratories (scientific and technical human capital) and ties with …

Scholarly work seeking to understand academics' commercial activities often draws on
abstract notions of the academic reward system and the representative scientist. Few …

This paper estimates the “production function” for scientific research publications in the field
of biotechnology. It utilises an exceptionally rich and comprehensive data set pertaining to …

The academic profession is internally divided as never before. This cross‐national
comparative analysis of stratification in Higher Education is based on a sample of European …