Publishing Trends of Psychology Faculty during Their Pretenure Years

This article describes an analysis of the productivity of psychology faculty during their first 7 post-doctoral years. The primary goal was to provide objective data regarding the typical rates of productivity for untenured cognitive, developmental, and social psychologists who hold appointments at...

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Published in:Psychological science 2007-04, Vol.18 (4), p.283-286
Main Author: Byrnes, James P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical psychology
Cognition
Cognitive psychology
Counselling
Developmental psychology
Educational psychology
Employment - statistics & numerical data
Faculty - statistics & numerical data
Faculty publishing
Humans
Impact factor
Impact factors
Impressions
Periodicals
Prevalence
Productivity
Psychological counseling
Psychologists
Psychology
Psychology - statistics & numerical data
Publishing
Publishing - statistics & numerical data
Publishing - trends
Research Reports
Scholarly publishing
Schools
Social psychology
Tenure
Time Factors
Trajectories
Universities - statistics & numerical data
University faculty
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Summary:This article describes an analysis of the productivity of psychology faculty during their first 7 post-doctoral years. The primary goal was to provide objective data regarding the typical rates of productivity for untenured cognitive, developmental, and social psychologists who hold appointments at highly ranked institutions. Although the median rate of pretenure publishing conforms to informal impressions that junior faculty are typically awarded tenure if they publish at least one or two articles per year, tenure was awarded to 25% of the sample even though these individuals published less than one article per year. This finding cannot be explained by appealing to (a) the number of articles published prior to accepting a tenure-track appointment, (b) the number of chapters produced, or (c) the impact factors of the journals in which the individuals published.
ISSN:0956-7976
1467-9280
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01889.x