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Counterintuitive factors determining research productivity
- Permanent researchers publish more when they are in smaller labs.
- Having many Ph.D. students fails to improve productivity.
- Funding has little effect on research productivity.
Reference: Carayol, N. and Matt, M., Individual and collective determinants of academic scientists’ productivity, Information Economics and Policy 18 (1), 2006.
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