Using Publication, Patent, and NSF Grant Data Linked to the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to Understand Science Career Trajectories

Scientists receiving research funding from the federal government use it to produce scientific discoveries that are disseminated as research papers and inventions that become patented. Few data sources link scientists to their scholarly output as measured by federal research grants, publications, and patents. As a result, there is a limited understanding of the impact of publications, patents, and NSF grants on career outcomes such as pay and promotion. NCSES linked the SDR with publications data from two sources, as well as data on patents and NSF grants providing a rich dataset with which to understand how the scholarly output of scientists and engineers correlates with career trajectories. This project will examine the quality of data linkages, evaluate the effect of measurement error in publications data, and model promotion to tenure.