Still following the post above about how young researchers can benefit from collaborations with top scientists check below a paper published three days ago that provides evidence about how citations influence academic pay meaning that working with top scientists is not just a matter of more citations but also of higher pay:
Abstract: “There are
good reasons for why academicians should care about citations to scholarly
articles... a
relatively high rate of citations to a scholar’s work points toward an
impressive career in academe, reflecting one’s contributions to society in that
part of one’s career spent engaging in research endeavors. As such, it is
essential that compensation in academe is geared toward incentivizing the
production of impactful research. This study introduces a straightforward
approach to calculate the marginal impact of an academic publication on total
citations to a scholar’s research portfolio. This variable is then included in
an earnings equation, wherein it is expected to be positively related to a
scholar’s real academic pay...we find that this variable is indeed positively and significantly
related to a scholar’s pay, at least in the case of research-oriented higher
education institutions. More specifically, we find that an increase in this
variable is associated with a 2.8 to 8.9% boost in the salaries of college and
university faculty” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-021-04073-z
