Studies have demonstrated repeatedly that having a network of productive colleagues is one of the strongest predictors of research productivity, publications, career satisfaction, advancement and retention in academic faculty positions [ 3, 9, 35, 40, 41].
The characterization of productivity and publication quality of each country makes it possible to compare the importance of each study in the construction sector to other countries.
Ethiopia, Yemen, and Kenya had the highest productivity of publication after standardization by population size and GDP (Table 1).
Although the productivity issue is difficult for everyone to overcome without new publications, gaining expertise in a new field is not.
The three measures of research productivity used the total publication rate, publication rate in HIV/AIDS journals and publication rate in selected journals with moderate or higher 5-year IF were highly correlated (for all pairwise correlations, the Spearman r>0.88).
In a career where productivity and publications define your value, can you take a couple of years off and then make a successful return?
Research productivity, including publications and presentations in the years before establishing research teams and the 8 years subsequent to establishment of research teams with faculty mentors, was reviewed.
Ethiopia, Yemen, and Kenya had the highest productivity of publications after standardization by population size and GDP.
Career spent in industrial settings was found to be negatively related to publication productivity but positively related to patent productivity.
In a similar vein, the source of industry support was identified to be unrelated to publication productivity but positively related to patent productivity.
