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Comeback or dropout: study of discontinued researchers at early career stage
| dc.check.date | 2026-02-05 | en |
| dc.check.info | Access to this article is restricted until 12 months after publication by request of the publisher | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Gayen, Avijit | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Chakraborty, Somyajit | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Mitra, Saikat | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Jana, Angshuman | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-28T11:35:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-28T11:35:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-02-05 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In scientific research, understanding the dynamics of early-career researchers who discontinue their academic pursuits is paramount. However, this study aims to investigate the phenomenon of research discontinuation among early-career researchers, shedding light on the factors influencing their decisions and the potential for their return to the research arena. This work uses a mixed-methods approach to analyze the large-scale bibliography dataset. We extensively investigate the phenomenon of research discontinuation among early-career scholars. As the discontinuation of research activity at the early career stage could be an indication of drop-out in further activities, we have focused on the first 10 years of research tenure of the researchers. In our work, we specifically consider the three consecutive “non-publishing” years as the discontinuation of the research scholar. We conduct an experimental assessment of our proposed method using the AMiner Author dataset and note that among 113,637 researchers, - 89% of researchers have discontinued three years in their initial 10 years of research tenure. We further observe that out of the total researchers, 90% discontinued researchers drop out of their careers in the first ten years of their tenure of work. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gayen, A., Chakraborty, S., Mitra, S. and Jana, A. (2025) 'Comeback or dropout: study of discontinued researchers at early career stage', Scientometrics, pp.1-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05243-z | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11192-025-05243-z | en |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1588-2861 | en |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 36 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0138-9130 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Scientometrics | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/17134 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Scientometrics | en |
| dc.rights | © 2025, Akadémiai Kiadó Zrt. Published by Springer Nature Limited. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Nature Sustainability. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05243-z | en |
| dc.subject | Discontinued | en |
| dc.subject | Dropout | en |
| dc.subject | Collaboration network | en |
| dc.subject | Early career stage | en |
| dc.subject | Co-authorship network | en |
| dc.subject | Citation | en |
| dc.title | Comeback or dropout: study of discontinued researchers at early career stage | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
| dc.type | journal-article | en |
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