Recognition and weak ties: is there a positive effect of postdoctoral position on academic performance and career development?

Ana F Zubieta

Research Evaluation, 2009, vol. 18, issue 2, 105-115

Abstract: This article analyses the effect of researchers' postdoctoral mobility on academic performance. Postdoctoral positions are considered and conceptualised as a special type of researcher mobility. We use the curriculum vitae of UK academic scientists as a source of information, in addition to the ISI Web of Knowledge and the European Patent Office. We find major differences in the patterns of mobility between the pure and the transfer sciences. Pure scientists tend to move via a postdoctoral appointment, whereas transfer scientists tend to change job positions. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2009
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