This study focuses on the negative effects of the highly competitive academic environment.
We summarized the literature on what consequences an over-competitive system has on the …

This study investigates how scientific performance in terms of publication rate is influenced
by the gender, age and academic position of the researchers. Previous studies have shown …

The role of a scientist in society is undoubtedly extremely important. This thesis was
particularly confirmed by the global events of the beginning of the third decade of the 21st …

This article distinguishes between six tasks related to the academic researcher role:(1)
networking;(2) collaboration;(3) managing research;(4) doing research;(5) publishing …

In Norwegian research universities, a large individual increase has taken place in scientific
and scholarly publishing over the last 30 years. The purpose of this article is to explain the …

Sociological institutional theory views universities as model driven organizations. The
world's stratification system promotes conformity, imitation and isomorphism towards the …

In most Western European countries, higher education has to an increasing extent been
developing outside universities, partly through the establishment of new institutions, and …

The continued gender imbalance in senior positions in higher education is a problem that
persists despite decades of feminist research and publications in the area, as well as …

The onset of COVID‐19, coupled with the finer lens placed on systemic racial disparities
within our society, has resulted in increased discussions around mental health. Despite this …

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 …