Paper Info
Title
Early career performance and its correlation with gender and publication output during doctoral education
Abstract
Publishing in peer-reviewed journals as a part of the doctoral education is common practice in many countries. The publication output of doctoral students is increasingly used in selection processes for funding and employment in their early careers. Against the backdrop of this development, the aim of this study is to examine (1) how performance during the doctoral education affect the probability of attaining research excellence in the early career; and (2) if there is performance differences between males and females in the early career and to which degree these gender differences can be explained by performance differences during the doctoral education. The data consist of Swedish doctoral students employed at the faculty of science and technology and the faculty of medicine at a Swedish university. Our main conclusions are that (1) research performance during the doctoral education has a positive effect on attaining excellence in the early career; (2) there is an interaction between publication volume and excellence during doctoral education suggesting that a combination of quantity and quality in doctoral students’ performance is indicative of future excellence; (3) there are performance differences in the early career indicating that males have a higher probability of attaining excellence than females, and; (4) this difference is partly explained by performance differences during the doctoral education.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s11192-019-03262-1
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Early career, Doctoral student, Excellence, Gender, Indicator, Bibliometrics, Performance, Prediction
Medical education,Data mining,Computer science,Bibliometrics,Publishing,Excellence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
122
1
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonas Lindahl120.70
Cristian Colliander2694.79
Rickard Danell318313.21