MTS Women Leadership in Marine Science and Technology Webinar Series - Quantifying Attrition in Science

How many members of the scientific community leave academic science? Do they leave science or academia? How does attrition differ across genders, academic disciplines, and over time? Please join us for a discussion of longitudinal data from 38 countries comparing attrition of men and women scientists, and the widely nuanced changes found at the discipline level and over time.

Date/Time:
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | 2:00pm-3:00pm EST

Speakers: 

Professor Marek Kwiek,University of Poznan, Poland

Professor Marek Kwiek is UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy, University of Poznan, Poland. His research area is quantitative studies of science and higher education research, with interests in globalization, global academic profession, research productivity and international research collaboration.

Professor Lukasz Szymula, University of Poznan, Poland and University of Colorado

Dr. Lukasz Szymula is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, and a Big Data expert at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His main research areas are large bibliometric databases and analyses of academic careers using artificial intelligence. He focuses on the evaluation of intelligent computing methods with a particular focus on fuzzy set theory for classifying scientific disciplines.

Resources

• Allison, P. D. (2014). Event history and survival analysis. Sage.
• Baas, J., Schotten, M., Plume, A., Côté, G., & Karimi, R. (2020). Scopus as a curated, high-quality bibliometric data source for academic research in quantitative science studies. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(1), 377–386. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00019
• Blickenstaff, J. C. (2005). Women and science careers: Leaky pipeline or gender filter? Gender and Education, 17(4), 369–386.
• Branch, E. H. (Ed.). (2016). Pathways, potholes, and the persistence of women in science. Lexington Books.
• Deutsch, F. M., & Yao, B. (2014). Gender differences in faculty attrition in the USA. Community, Work & Family, 17(4), 392–408.
• Fox, M. F., & Xiao, W. (2013). Perceived chances for promotion among women associate professors in computing: Individual, departmental, and entrepreneurial factors. Journal of Technology Transfer, 38, 135–152.
• Fox, M. F., Realff, M. L., Rueda, D. R., & Morn, J. (2017). International research collaboration among women engineers: Frequency and perceived barriers, by regions. Journal of Technology Transfer, 42(6), 1292–1306.
• Geuna, A., & Shibayama, S. (2015). Moving out of academic research: Why do scientists stop doing research? In A. Geuna (Ed.), Global mobility of research scientists (pp. 271–297). Elsevier.
• Kaminski, D., & Geisler, C. (2012). Survival analysis of faculty retention in science and engineering by gender. Science, 335, 864–866.
• Kwiek, M., and Szymula, L. (2024). Quantifying Attrition in Science: A Cohort-Based, Longitudinal Study of Scientists in 38 OECD Countries. Higher Education. Featured in Nature.
• Kwiek, M. and Szymula, L. (2024). Leaving Science: Attrition of Biologists in 38 OECD Countries. Preprint available from BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.627162v2
• Kwiek, M., and Roszka, W. (2024). Top Research Performance in Poland Over Three Decades : A Multidimensional Micro-Data Approach. Journal of Informetrics.
• Kwiek, M. and Roszka, W. (2024). Are Scientists Changing their Research Productivity Classes When They Move up the Academic Ladder?  Innovative Higher Education.
• Kwiek, M., Horta, H., and Powell, J. J. W. (2024). Using Large-Scale Bibliometric Data in Higher Education Research. Higher Education Quarterly.
• Kwiek, M. and Roszka, W. (2024). Once Highly Productive, Forever Highly Productive? Full Professors’ Research Productivity from a Longitudinal Perspective. Higher Education.
• Kwiek, M. and Szymula, L. (2024). Young Male and Female Scientists: A Quantitative Exploratory Study of the Global Scientific Workforce. Quantitative Science Studies.
• Kwiek, M. and Roszka, W. (2024). The Young and the Old, the Fast and the Slow: A Large-Scale Study of Productivity Classes and Rank Advancement. Studies in Higher Education.
• Kwiek, M. (2023). The Globalization of Science. The Increasing Power of Individual Scientists. The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization. Oxford UP.
• Sugimoto, C., & Larivière, V. (2023). Equity for women in science: Dismantling systemic barriers to advancement. Harvard University Press.

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