Size and ageing of the scientific community in Chile

Saavedra, Fernando Figueroa; Mackenzie, Mary Rose; Pessot, Rafael; Krauskopf, Manuel

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“…while sixteen years later, in 1999, PPI data revealed that registered researchers were 44.3 ± 0.2 old (arithmetic mean ± s.e.m.). Given the fact that the (arithmetic) mean age of the Venezuelan citizen was calculated to be 23.1 years in year 1983 or 26.1 years in year 1999, it is obvious that in those sixteen years the average age of the Venezuelan scientist increased twice as fast as that of the country citizen, suggesting ageing in the community; a fact not strange in the region, as shown to occur in Chile (SAAVEDRA et al, 1993).…”

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Dynamics of the modern Venezuelan research community profile

Requena¹

2005

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Dynamics of the modern Venezuelan research community profile

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2005

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“…It has, indeed, been suggested that aging of the scientific community might result in a slowdown of scientific progress (Cole, 1979). Concerns about this problem have been voiced explicitly in China (Jin et al, 2003, 2004), Flanders in Belgium (Dambre, 2002) and Chile (Saavedra, Mackenzie, Pessot, & Krauskopf, 1993), among other countries. A comparison with the situation in China and the United States is made.…”

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Reflections on the age distribution of Japanese scientists

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Rousseau³

2005

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An Erratum has been published for this article in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(5) 2007, 762 [].The age distribution of a country's scientists is an important element in the study of its research capacity. In this article we investigate the age distribution of Japanese scientists in order to find out whether major events such as World War II had an appreciable effect on its features. Data have been obtained from population censuses taken in Japan from 1970 to 1995. A comparison with the situation in China and the United States has been made. We find that the group of scientific researchers outside academia is dominated by the young: those younger than age 35. The personnel group in higher education, on the other hand, is dominated by the baby boomers: those who were born after World War II. Contrary to the Chinese situation we could not find any influence of major nondemographic events. The only influence we found was the increase in enrollment of university students after World War II caused by the reform of the Japanese university system. Female participation in the scientific and university systems in Japan, though still low, is increasing.

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Size and ageing of the scientific community in Chile

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Dynamics of the modern Venezuelan research community profile

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