 Scientific productivity and academic promotion: a study on French and Italian physicistsFrancesco Lissoni, Jacques Mairesse, Fabio Montobbio and Michele Pezzoni Post-Print from HAL Abstract: 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. Keywords: C23; I23; J40; O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Industrial and Corporate Change, 2011, 20 (1), pp.253-294. ⟨10.1093/icc/dtq073⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01074526 DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq073 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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