The study analyzed 34009 Italian Professors and 4327 Professors from Norway in 11 scientific fields. See on this issue Table 2 below. One interesting thing is the percentage of Full Professors, 30.4% for Italy and 59% for Norway. Check also in the paper Table 3 for Professor salaries in Italy and Norway
Italy
|
Norway
|
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Discipline
|
No. of
SCs
|
Tot.
professors
|
Assistant
(%)
|
Associate
(%)
|
Full (%)
|
Tot.
professors
|
Assistant
(%)
|
Associate
(%)
|
Full (%)
|
Mathematics
|
6
|
2122
|
22.8
|
40.4
|
36.8
|
183
|
2.2
|
29.0
|
68.9
|
Physics
|
16
|
2918
|
23.8
|
43.3
|
32.9
|
256
|
9.8
|
21.5
|
68.8
|
Chemistry
|
7
|
1896
|
28.1
|
43.8
|
28.2
|
122
|
14.8
|
29.5
|
55.7
|
Earth and
Space sciences
|
11
|
1873
|
29.6
|
41.6
|
28.8
|
413
|
14.8
|
29.1
|
56.2
|
Biology
|
28
|
5635
|
34.9
|
37.6
|
27.5
|
736
|
20.7
|
28.0
|
51.4
|
Biomedical
Research
|
14
|
3707
|
37.8
|
36.3
|
25.9
|
245
|
19.2
|
30.2
|
50.6
|
Clinical
Medicine
|
36
|
7571
|
35.8
|
36.0
|
28.2
|
958
|
10.5
|
31.3
|
58.1
|
Psychology
|
6
|
475
|
31.2
|
39.8
|
29.1
|
148
|
2.7
|
42.6
|
54.7
|
Engineering
|
34
|
5522
|
26.5
|
40.3
|
33.2
|
426
|
5.2
|
27.2
|
67.6
|
Political
and social sciences
|
11
|
442
|
20.6
|
41.6
|
37.8
|
438
|
6.2
|
33.1
|
60.7
|
Economics
|
8
|
1848
|
19.0
|
40.4
|
40.6
|
402
|
3.0
|
33.1
|
63.9
|
Total
|
177
|
34009
|
30.6
|
39.0
|
30.4
|
4327
|
10.9
|
30.1
|
59.0
|
