Predicting the age of researchers using bibliometric data

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Highlights:

• The most important bibliometric factors that can be used to estimate the academic age of researchers are analyzed from a prediction point of view.

• The year of first publication of a researcher proves to be the best linear predictor of her academic and biological age, overall and by scientific fields.

• Additional age-related variables (e.g., the position of authors in the by-line of the papers or total output) do not substantially improve prediction.

摘要

•The most important bibliometric factors that can be used to estimate the academic age of researchers are analyzed from a prediction point of view.•The year of first publication of a researcher proves to be the best linear predictor of her academic and biological age, overall and by scientific fields.•Additional age-related variables (e.g., the position of authors in the by-line of the papers or total output) do not substantially improve prediction.

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论文评审过程:Received 28 November 2016, Revised 3 May 2017, Accepted 8 May 2017, Available online 15 June 2017, Version of Record 15 June 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.05.002