Authors: Ryan D Duffy Alex Jadidian Gregory D Webster Kyle J Sandell
Publish Date: 2011/07/16
Volume: 89, Issue: 1, Pages: 207-
Abstract
Research productivity affects the careers of academic psychologists Unfortunately there is a surprising lack of consensus on productivity’s meaning measurement and how to compare the productivity of one academic psychologist to another In the present study we review academic productivity research within psychology and using a sample of 673 psychologists compute six indexes of productivity Most productivity metrics publication count citation count or some combination of the two were substantially interrelated and one Integrated Research Productivity Index was independent from years in the field Female psychologists were equally as productive as male psychologists after accounting for years in the field and pretenure psychologists showed steeper changeovertime productivity slopes than posttenure psychologists Based on these findings we provide recommendations for the use and measurement of academic research productivity
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