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Industrial and Corporate ChangeVolume 20, Issue 1, 1 January 2011, Pages 253-294

Scientific productivity and academic promotion: A study on French and Italian physicists(Article)(Open Access)

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  • aDIMI, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
  • bKITeS, Universita' Bocconi, Via Roentgen 1, 20136 Milan, Italy
  • cCREST-INSEE, 15 Boulevard Gabriel Peri, 92245 Malakoff Cedex, France
  • dNational Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
  • eUnited Nations University, Keizer Karelplein 19, 6211 TC Maastricht, Netherlands
  • fICER-Villa Gualino, Viale Settimio Severo 63, 10133 Torino, Italy
  • gDepartment of Economics, University of Insubria, Varese, Via Monte Generoso 71, 21100 Varese, Italy
  • hDipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, 20136 Milan, Italy

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. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved.

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GEOBASE Subject Index:academic performancecohort analysispanel dataphysicsprobabilityregression analysisresearch work

Funding details

Funding sponsor Funding number Acronym
Centros de Investigación y Desarrollo, Universidad de ValparaísoFP6–043345
FIRB RBNE03ZLFW_05,IS0604
European Commission
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    Italian Ministry of Education (FIRB RBNE03ZLFW_05 to J.M.); Strike-Cost Programme (IS0604 to M.P.); European Commission (CID Project, FP6–043345 to F.L. and F.M.).

  • ISSN: 09606491
  • Source Type: Journal
  • Original language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq073
  • Document Type: Article
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

  Lissoni, F.; DIMI, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy;
© Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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