What is the impact of culture in a research institution? Is this impact significant in determining the career trajectory of a new researcher? Over my career, I worked in two very different organizations. One was a teaching–oriented university where hardly any faculty did research. As a consequence, my research efforts waned, especially given that this [...]
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All researchers should be interested in the circumstances under which the most productive academic authors publish their work. This is because success in publishing connects closely with universities’ decisions on tenure and promotion and with opportunities for merit based pay increases and alternative employment.
A recent study published in the Journal of Education for Business examined [...]
A couple of weeks ago, a tenure-track faculty member asked me if promotion and tenure boards gave more weight to single authored research over collaborative research. Interesting problem, which no doubt many faculty wrestle with during the early stages of their academic careers.
In my experience, if a tenure track faculty member has only published single-author papers, [...]