Original scientific paper

The Socio-professional Patterns of Scientific Productivity

Katarina Prpić ; Institute for Social Research, Zagreb

Abstract

This paper deals with the identification of patterns of scientific productivity, which have been considered as a starting point for more complex analyses of publication productivity determinants.
Different socio-professional subgroups of researchers publish significantly different average number of scientific publications. In accordance to our empirical investigation’s results, socio-professional profile of the most productive Croatian scientists appears as follows: These are men. They are sixty and more years old. They occupy the high(est) organizational positions in their scientific institutions. They have leading roles within various research programs/projects. They are employed at universities/faculties. Finally, they are to be found among social scientists.
Taking into account that leading organizational and research roles, certain scientific fields and institutional contexts are associated with significantly higher average publication productivity, and considering that even gender and age patterns of scientific productivity depend upon research roles, it’s possible to assume that the division of labour in science might powerfully influence publication productivity of researchers.

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Hrčak ID:

155009

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155009

Publication date:

30.6.1992.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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