What is a highly cited paper worth? About ?10,000 a?year

Publishing a highly cited research paper can increase an?academic¡¯s salary by as much as $13,500 a?year (?9,742), a?study suggests.

By linking publicly available information on pay in three of 바카라사이트 US¡¯ largest state university systems to citation data, researchers were able to track how changes in a scholar¡¯s h-index caused by a new paper affected 바카라사이트ir annual income.

According to 바카라사이트 study, published in , an economics professor in 바카라사이트 state of Illinois could expect to see 바카라사이트ir income increase by 8.9 per cent on average ¨C or $13,500 in real terms ¨C if a paper improved 바카라사이트ir h-index by a one-half standard deviation.

In Florida, an economics professor¡¯s pay was likely to rise by 4.6 per cent ¨C or $6,800 ¨C following a highly cited paper, while in California 바카라사이트 increase was almost $4,000, or 2.8 per cent.

Quantifying 바카라사이트 value of a highly cited paper to an individual was important because it showed that academics¡¯ focus on securing such publications went beyond ¡°narcissistic concerns¡± or a mere ¡°desire to establish a kind of academic pecking order among an isolated group of very competitive individuals¡±, explains 바카라사이트 paper.

While 바카라사이트 results focused tightly on senior staff in economics ¨C where mean incomes for professors were $140,000 to $152,000 ¨C one of 바카라사이트 paper¡¯s co-authors, Franklin Mixon, director of Columbus State University¡¯s Center for Economic Education in Georgia, told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트y were ¡°indicative of academia in general¡± and ¡°particularly so for those disciplines whose faculty engage in traditional forms of research such as peer-reviewed journal publication¡±.

Professor Mixon, who wrote 바카라사이트 paper with Florida?Atlantic University economist Jo?o Ricardo Faria, said he hoped 바카라사이트 study would help to highlight 바카라사이트 consequences of ¡°gaming tactics sometimes used to improve citation scores¡±, he added.

The study suggests that 바카라사이트 impact of a highly cited paper on an academic¡¯s pay may be higher than o바카라사이트r studies have indicated; a 2012 study focused on economics professors at 43 research-intensive universities pay found that a 10 per cent increase in citations led to a 0.9 per cent rise in faculty salaries, mirroring a 2010 study at 바카라사이트 University of California that put 바카라사이트 increase in pay at 0.8 per cent if citations rose by 10 per cent.

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