Phys.org  September 16, 2024 An international team of researchers (Poland, Germany, USA – University of Colorado) explored how members of the scientific community leave academic science and how attrition (defined as ceasing to publish) differs across genders, academic disciplines, and over time. They tracked individual male and female scientists over time and quantified the phenomenon, using publication metadata from Scopus, following the details of the publishing careers of scientists from 38 OECD countries who started publishing in 2000 and 2010. The study was restricted to 16 STEMM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine). They tracked the individual scholarly output […]