Scientific productivity and academic promotion: a study on French and Italian physicists
The article examines the determinants of scientific productivity (number of articles and journals' impact factor) for a panel of about 3600 French and Italian academic physicists active in 2004--2005. Endogeneity problems concerning promotion and productivity are addressed by specifying a generalized Tobit model, in which a selection probit equation accounts for the individual scientist's probability of promotion to her present rank, and a productivity regression estimates the effects of age, gender, cohort of entry, and collaboration characteristics, conditional on the scientist's rank. We find that the size and international nature of collaborative projects and co-authors' past productivity have very significant impacts on current productivity, while age, gender, and past productivity are also influential determinants of both productivity and probability of promotion. Furthermore we show that the stop and go policies of recruitment and promotion, typical of the Italian and French centralized academic systems of governance, can leave significant long-lasting cohort effects on research productivity. Copyright 2011 The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. All rights reserved. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.
Year of publication: |
2011
|
---|---|
Authors: | Lissoni, Francesco ; Mairesse, Jacques ; Montobbio, Fabio ; Pezzoni, Michele |
Published in: |
Industrial and Corporate Change. - Oxford University Press. - Vol. 20.2011, 1, p. 253-294
|
Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
Saved in:
Online Resource
Saved in favorites
Similar items by person
-
Scientific productivity and academic promotion : a study on French and Italian physicists
Lissoni, Francesco, (2011)
-
Scientific Productivity and Academic Promotion : A Study on French and Italian Physicists
Lissoni, Francesco, (2014)
-
Scientific Productivity and Academic Promotion : A Study on French and Italian Physicists
Lissoni, Francesco, (2010)
- More ...