| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20037 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20037 |
| The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function: Evidence from the MIT Department of Biology for 1970-2000 | |
| Annamaria Conti; Christopher C. Liu | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-04-10 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Considerable attention has been focused, in recent years, on the role that graduate and postdoc students play in the production of academic knowledge. Using data from the MIT Department of Biology for the period 1970-2000, we analyze the evolution over time of four fundamental aspects of their productivity: i) training duration; ii) time to a first publication; iii) productivity over the training period; and iv) collaboration with other scientists. We identified four main trends that are common to graduate students and postdocs. First, training periods have increased for later cohorts of graduate and postdoc students. Second, later cohorts tend to publish their initial first-author article later than the earlier cohorts. Third, they produce fewer first-author publications. Finally, collaborations with other scientists, as measured by the number of coauthors on a paper, have increased. This increase is driven by collaborations with scientists external to a trainee's laboratory. We interpret these results in light of the following two paradigms: the increased burden of knowledge that later generations of scientists face and the limited availability of permanent academic positions. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20037 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577711 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Annamaria Conti,Christopher C. Liu. The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function: Evidence from the MIT Department of Biology for 1970-2000. 2014. |
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