The publication trajectory of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and new professors in psychology.

Autor/inn/en	Zou, Christopher; Tsui, Julia; Peterson, Jordan B.
Titel	The publication trajectory of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and new professors in psychology.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2017) 2, S.1289-1310 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-017-2540-6
Schlagwörter	Publications; Graduate students; Higher education; Professorship; Psychology; Research productivity
Abstract	Abstract Each year as the number of graduate students in psychology increases, there is also increased competition for academic positions. The general consensus is that there is higher pressure for students to publish prolifically, yet there is little information as to what this exactly means. The main aim of the present study was to examine the average publication trajectory of a psychology student advancing to a post-doctoral fellowship to a faculty position. We obtained curricula vitae from graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty members from 2010 to 2015 in addition to self-reports from the graduate students. The number of publications substantially increased with each step of progression: graduate students published on average 2.89 (self-report) to 3.08 (CV report) papers, post-doctoral fellows on average published 8.06 papers, and junior professors on average had 14.30 publications before they were hired. The same pattern was observed even when restricting the number of publications to only those that were first-authored. However, a slightly different pattern emerged when comparing a scientometric index (zp-index) that takes into account both the quantity and quality of publications.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05