Professional Age and the Reception of Sociological Publications: A Test of the Zuckerman-Merton Hypothesis

Creative thought as blind-variation and selective-retention: Combinatorial models of exceptional creativity

“…This theoretical explanation is supported by several empirical studies (e.g., [24,[106][107][108]145,153,166]; but see [79]). Finally, when this expectation is combined with the annual distribution of total products, we can infer that (a) highimpact contributions will be randomly distributed across consecutive years of the career and (b) the annual output of those high-impact contributions will also be Poisson distributed (but with a much smaller μ).…”

Does the human capital of teams of natural science authors predict citation frequency?

“…The study is also limited because I omitted measures of demographic diversity such age, nationality and gender from this study. Since there is some reason to believe that author age and nationality might play a role in citation giving [OROMANER, 1977;PASTERKAMP & AL., 2007], extending this study by adding demographic variables is another opportunity for future research.…”

Lifelong Learning: An Emerging Research Agenda for Music Education

“…When amount of creative output is tabulated through adulthood, the level of productivity for most fields appears to peak around age 40 and to decline thereafter (Simonton, 1990). When quality or significance is considered, however, the ratio of high-quality works to amount of output shows no relation to age, but appears to be a function of other variables such as the particular discipline, or personality characteristics such as motivation and tenacity (Oromaner, 1977;Over, 1988).…”