ArticleeLife2020
A survey-based analysis of the academic job market.
Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Training the Next Generation of Clinical Psychological Scientists: A Data-Driven Call to Action.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2022Review
- Building and sustaining mentor interactions as a mentee.The FEBS journal · 2022Article
- Preprinting is positively associated with early career researcher status in ecology and evolution.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Myths and facts about getting an academic faculty position in neuroscience.Science advances · 2021Article
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Abstract
Many postdoctoral researchers apply for faculty positions knowing relatively little about the hiring process or what is needed to secure a job offer. To address this lack of knowledge about the hiring process we conducted a survey of applicants for faculty positions: the survey ran between May 2018 and May 2019, and received 317 responses. We analyzed the responses to explore the interplay between various scholarly metrics and hiring outcomes. We concluded that, above a certain threshold, the benchmarks traditionally used to measure research success - including funding, number of publications or journals published in - were unable to completely differentiate applicants with and without job offers. Respondents also reported that the hiring process was unnecessarily stressful, time-consuming, and lacking in feedback, irrespective of outcome. Our findings suggest that there is considerable scope to improve the transparency of the hiring process.
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