Productivity and Institutional Mobility of Recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships during Their Academic Career

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis study determined that 18.6% of 199 recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships in Mathematics between 1955 to 1979 did not change institutions during the first 40 years of their academic careers after obtaining a doctor of philosophy degree. The results indicated no significant difference in the average productivity per researcher when they were categorized by their number of home institutions. However, average productivity differed significantly between recipients with and without international mobility. The results indicated an increasing trend in annual average productivity for all groups of researchers with international mobility except for researchers with one home institution. The inconsistent findings for the four main groups merit further investigation of the relationships between the number of home institutions, international mobility status, and productivity.