%0 Report %1 graber2007 %A Graber, Michael %A Launov, Andrey %A Wälde, Klaus %B Würzburg Economic Papers %D 2007 %K Bibliometrie Publikationsverhalten Rankings Szientometrie Wirtschaftswissenschaften Zeitschriften %N 75 %T How to get tenured (in Germany, in Economics) %X Getting a tenured position in economics in Germany is viewed as a random outcome where the probability of tenure depends on the quantity and qual- ity of publications, age and years since PhD. We measure publications both in units of Top 5 journals and in units of the European Economic Review (EER). We …nd that the average age of a professor in the year of his …rst appointment in Germany in the period of 1970 to 2005 is 38. This is ap- proximately 8 years after the PhD. He has 1.5 “standardized”Top 5 papers or 2.2 “standardized”EER papers, i.e. written with one coauthor and of 20 pages length. Results vary across sub…elds and over time. Someone aiming for a tenured job after 2010 should by then (average over all …elds) have 3.3 standardized Top 5 papers or 5 standardized EER papers.

@techreport{graber2007, abstract = {Getting a tenured position in economics in Germany is viewed as a random outcome where the probability of tenure depends on the quantity and qual- ity of publications, age and years since PhD. We measure publications both in units of Top 5 journals and in units of the European Economic Review (EER). We …nd that the average age of a professor in the year of his …rst appointment in Germany in the period of 1970 to 2005 is 38. This is ap- proximately 8 years after the PhD. He has 1.5 “standardized”Top 5 papers or 2.2 “standardized”EER papers, i.e. written with one coauthor and of 20 pages length. Results vary across sub…elds and over time. Someone aiming for a tenured job after 2010 should by then (average over all …elds) have 3.3 standardized Top 5 papers or 5 standardized EER papers.}, added-at = {2010-12-16T15:59:01.000+0100}, author = {Graber, Michael and Launov, Andrey and Wälde, Klaus}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2eb1dd21fce98087e69f61fdc9ae2a802/igl}, interhash = {8588252aff60d36826218b3651959107}, intrahash = {eb1dd21fce98087e69f61fdc9ae2a802}, keywords = {Bibliometrie Publikationsverhalten Rankings Szientometrie Wirtschaftswissenschaften Zeitschriften}, number = 75, series = {Würzburg Economic Papers}, timestamp = {2010-12-16T15:59:01.000+0100}, title = {How to get tenured (in Germany, in Economics)}, year = 2007 }