Not by Productivity Alone: How Visibility and Specialization Contribute to Academic Earnings

By Erin Leahey. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity (2022, background): “While there is no definite consensus on this trade-off between breadth and depth, research underscores that specialists often tend to have the upper hand (Buchen et al., 2021; Leahey, 2007; Waller & Anderson, 2019), while the context of work roles sometimes favours a generalist strategy, e.”
Collaboration and Productivity in Scientific Synthesis (2011, background): “Publication characteristics can also vary with group members’ gender (Long 1992, Leahey 2007) and country of origin (Fava and Ottolini 2004), so these variables were included to control for their potential influence.”
Creating and maintaining high-performing collaborative research teams: the importance of diversity and interpersonal skills (2014, background): “Although disciplinary specialization may benefit scientists in terms of research productivity and promotion (Leahey 2007), for interdisciplinary teams, the ability to bridge knowledge or approaches across disciplinary boundaries (ie brokering) is also important (Pennington 2011).”
Creativity at the Knowledge Frontier: The Impact of Specialization in Fast- and Slow-paced Domains* (2018, background): “Moreover, there is some evidence that individuals lacking specialization might spread themselves too thin and be perceived as less credible (Weisberg, 1998; Leahey, 2007).”
Prominent but Less Productive (2015, background): “Gender and professional age have been shown to influence engagement with IDR (Boix Mansilla, 2006; van Rijnsoever and Hessels, 2011; Dahlander and Frederiksen, 2012), as well as productivity and visibility (Leahey, 2006; Maliniaka, Powers, and Walter, 2013).”
Knowledge Recombination Across Technological Boundaries: Scientists vs. Engineers (2013, background): “This problematic property is shared by the breadth measures proposed by Lerner (1994) and Leahey (2006).”
Intended and unintended consequences of a publish-or-perish culture: A worldwide survey (2012, background): “In short, in the age of the attention economy visibility is an important part of the equation of academic success (Klamer & Van Dalen, 2002; Leahey, 2007; Van Dalen & Klamer, 2005).”
Predicting Publication Success for Biologists (2013, background): “Obviously, one would consider a range of additional factors in hiring decisions (Lee and Bozeman 2005, Leahey 2007), but a proclivity for publishing is often vital in today’s competitive academic market.”
Parenting and research productivity: New evidence and methods (2010, neutral): “Email: lahunter@email.arizona.edu”