Tenure's Impact on Publishing

Nature news has the scoop on this PNAS study on research productivity after tenure.  From the news item:

"Faculty members in all disciplines tend to publish the most in the year before they’re granted tenure, the analysis found. After achieving it, their output varies by field: it plateaus for biologists and others who tend to work in the laboratory, and dips for those in fields such as mathematics that generally do not require lab research. The analysis was published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

Cheers, 

Colin