Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals
A study of nearly 400,000 scientists across 38 countries finds that one-third of them quit science within five years of authoring their first paper, and almost half leave within a decade.
The analysis, published in Higher Education1, used data from the citation database Scopus to track scientists scholarly publishing careers a proxy for how active they are in research. It found that, overall, women were more likely than men to stop publishing, but the size of this difference varied between disciplines.
via www.nature.com