The misleading narrative of the canonical faculty productivity trajectory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 44, 2017, Pages E9216-E9223

  Way, Samuel F ^a   Morgan, Allison C ^a   Clauset, Aaron ^a,b,c   Larremore, Daniel B ^a,b,c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Career trajectory; Computer science; Data analysis; Productivity; Sociology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CAREER; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION; NARRATIVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIST; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; CAREER MOBILITY; PERSONNEL; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CAREER MOBILITY; EFFICIENCY; FACULTY; HUMANS; NARRATION; PUBLICATIONS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 85032709791     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1702121114     Document Type: Article

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