Early career performance and its correlation with gender and publication output during doctoral education

Jonas Lindahl (), Cristian Colliander and Rickard Danell
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Jonas Lindahl: Umeå University
Cristian Colliander: Umeå University
Rickard Danell: Umeå University

Scientometrics, 2020, vol. 122, issue 1, No 14, 309-330

Abstract: Abstract Publishing in peer-reviewed journals as a part of the doctoral education is common practice in many countries. The publication output of doctoral students is increasingly used in selection processes for funding and employment in their early careers. Against the backdrop of this development, the aim of this study is to examine (1) how performance during the doctoral education affect the probability of attaining research excellence in the early career; and (2) if there is performance differences between males and females in the early career and to which degree these gender differences can be explained by performance differences during the doctoral education. The data consist of Swedish doctoral students employed at the faculty of science and technology and the faculty of medicine at a Swedish university. Our main conclusions are that (1) research performance during the doctoral education has a positive effect on attaining excellence in the early career; (2) there is an interaction between publication volume and excellence during doctoral education suggesting that a combination of quantity and quality in doctoral students’ performance is indicative of future excellence; (3) there are performance differences in the early career indicating that males have a higher probability of attaining excellence than females, and; (4) this difference is partly explained by performance differences during the doctoral education.

Keywords: Early career; Doctoral student; Excellence; Gender; Indicator; Bibliometrics; Performance; Prediction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03262-1

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