Measures of research productivity have become widely used for obtaining tenure, third-party
funding, and additional resources from universities. However, previous studies indicate that …

Lack of diversity on editorial boards might generate disparities in editorial and peer review
that contribute to gender and geographic disparities in scholarly publishing. We use a …

This study assesses how four types of mobility, which are analysed simultaneously, are
associated with the current research output quality and visibility of academics working in the …

The demands for academic research placed on contemporary universities are closely
related to the levels of innovative research they are expected to produce. Concurrently, both …

Public universities, and science in general, in Brazil, are under attack from key persons of
the government in interviews and articles published in non-scientific journals. Here we look …

Research agenda setting is a critical dimension in the creation of knowledge since it
represents the starting point of a process that embeds individual researchers'(and the …

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Quantitative Methods in PER: A Critical
Examination.] A common goal in discipline-based education research (DBER) is to …

More than a decade since the global financial crisis, economics does not exhibit signs of
significant change. Mainstream economists act on an idealized image of science, which …

This study analyzes the association between the strategic research agendas of researchers
in the social sciences and their research performance. Based on a worldwide sample of 604 …

Background: How many higher education researchers are there in the world? How many
academic articles are published by researchers each year? This paper aims to answer these …