A recent study showed that over 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, based on data from 45,500 careers over 25 years. Researchers with a highly cited paper or who changed their research focus or moved abroad were more likely to secure faculty positions. The analysis, using Microsoft Academic Graph and professional networks, emphasizes the importance of postdoctoral training for early-career success, revealing a bottleneck in the availability of faculty positions relative to postdocs, impacting career outcomes in academia significantly.
"Our research highlights that the postdoctoral years are just as critical as the PhD years when evaluating a scientist's likelihood of successfully entering academia and securing a faculty position."
"The team's data set shows that 41% of postdocs end up leaving academia. Researchers who publish less during their postdoc than they did during their PhD are more likely to leave."
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