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I wonder how many research professors there are in the world. Basic googling suggests there are order-of-magnitude 1000000 university faculty in the world, so
by xamuel 11y ago
I wonder how many research professors there are in the world. Basic googling suggests there are order-of-magnitude 1000000 university faculty in the world, so a million papers is at most 1 paper per faculty member per year, which doesn't seem unreasonable. Of course, how many of those faculty are serious researchers, and how many are just instructors, is a harder question.
- dalke 11y agoIt's not only research professors who publish. Corporate research scientists also publish, including those at Microsoft, Google, and Intel.
- ajford 11y agoPart of it comes from the fact that a lot of institutions require continuous publication by their faculty/research staff. If you don't publish because you're focusing on a long term paper, it can look bad on you during annual review. To combat this a fair number of people will publish many times on the same developing experiment (not that this is necessarily a bad thing). Don't forget grad students and dedicated undergrads. That adds a fair bit to your existing numbers.