Tuesday, February 4, 2014

What determines research productivity in university departments?

A recent paper attempts to tackle this question and finds that the total citation count of the incoming department chair's research publications is a strong predictor of future departmental research output.

In other words, if you want to up your department's research, appoint high powered researcher as the chair.


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