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Is the researcher population really getting older?

By Elsevier Pure Platform|Published On: 12 October, 2022|Categories: Research publishing|

Prof Marek Kwiek and his doctoral student Lukasz Szymula collaborated with Elsevier’s ICSR Lab for a global study on the age of academia using structured Scopus data on 5 million scientists in OECD countries. This chart shows the change in the median age of scientists between 1990 and 2020 by discipline.

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