Tyler points us to an interesting paper on how getting tenure affects the frequency of publication and the citations to published pieces. The paper is trying to examine the often used rationale for tenure that it allows you to take risks. As the paper and Tyler both point out, the risk that many tenured profs take is that they can stop doing work and still keep their jobs!
They studied publication frequencies and citation counts from 1996 to 2014.
They found most “home runs” came before tenure and that post tenure, profs produced fewer pubs and fewer citations to those pubs.
One caveat I’d mention is that if you write something risky, it might take a long time for the profession to catch up to it. You might have to publish it in a “lower” quality journal and it might take a long time for citations to grow. I…
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