A Cumulative Advantage Model for Tenure Tracking Young Scientists

Author

Taypanhyavong, M. ; Hao Zhang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Central South Univ., Changsha, China

fYear

2012

fDate

6-8 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

33

Abstract

Matthew effect or cumulative advantage (CA) is widely studied in all sorts of fields. It is considered as an important factor that causes inequality in labor wages, education and careers. This even greatly impacts the scientific activities including journal publication, grant application, peer recognition, promotion, etc. Numerous models are developed to analyze the CA process. However, we are not aware of any work on the analysis of CA issue encountered by young scientists at their early stage of careers in the form of tenure track. The CA process for this group has its unique characteristics and requires special treatment. Therefore, a modified CA model is constructed and its implications are also analyzed.

Keywords

education; professional aspects; Matthew effect; careers; cumulative advantage model; education; labor wages; tenure tracking; young scientists; Analytical models; Communities; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Information science; Mathematical model; Productivity; Matthew effect; cumulative advantage; mathematical models; tenure track;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems (GCIS), 2012 Third Global Congress on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3072-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GCIS.2012.59

Filename

6449477