4 papers
Survivors in Science: A Comprehensive Analysis
Marek Kwiek, Lukasz Szymula
We followed scientists who started publishing in 2000 and who continued publishing until 2020-2023 (N = 41,424). These survivors in science authored 2 million articles (N = 2,089,0…
Women in Science: Measuring Participation in Europe Across Disciplines, Generations and Over Time
Marek Kwiek, Lukasz Szymula
In this research, we quantify an inflow of women into science in the past three decades. Structured Big Data allow us to estimate the contribution of women scientists to the growth…
Quantifying Lifetime Productivity Changes: A Longitudinal Study of 320,000 Late-Career Scientists
Marek Kwiek, Lukasz Szymula
The present study focuses on persistence in research productivity over the course of an individual's entire scientific career. We track 'late-career' scientists - scientists with a…
Quantifying Attrition in Science: A Cohort-Based, Longitudinal Study of Scientists in 38 OECD Countries
Marek Kwiek, Lukasz Szymula
In this paper, we explore how members of the scientific community leave academic science and how attrition (defined as ceasing to publish) differs across genders, academic discipli…