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 standardizedTop 5 papers
or 2.2 standardizedEER 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.
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%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 standardizedTop 5 papers
or 2.2 standardizedEER 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.
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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 standardizedTop 5 papers
or 2.2 standardizedEER 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.},
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series = {Würzburg Economic Papers},
timestamp = {2010-12-16T15:59:01.000+0100},
title = {How to get tenured (in Germany, in Economics)},
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