scientist age and publishing–50 is the new 30?!?!!?
Here’s an interesting article suggesting that “older scientists publish more papers”:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081029/pdf/4551161a.pdf
(if the link is down, see the October 30 2008 issue of Nature (vol. 455, issue 30) on page 1161)
Sounds like scientists in their 50s and 60s are publishing as much if not more than their 30 or 40 year old counterparts.
I guess there’s hope for all of us mudphudders out there…
