Findings on faculty, research performance, and faculty appointments in universities worldwide, written for the people who appoint.
Universities price appointments but seldom price departures. Across 29 Gulf universities, a fifth of researchers appear on about four in five of the most cited papers. In some fields, one departure puts about a third of that record at risk.
Market briefs
Where research-active faculty move between five regions, the corridors that carry them, and an opening for universities hiring in each.
Five regions · 8,762,862 researchers · moves detected 2021 to 2026
The eastward turn: who is arriving at Gulf universities, from where, in which fields, and where the openings are.
Six Gulf states · 215 institutions · moves detected 2021 to 2026
About half of arrivals raise their institution's research average. Their record before the move shows which half.
Confirmed arrivals at Gulf institutions · moves complete by 2023 · outcomes through 2025
Gulf universities already hire in clusters: about half of arrivals publish with another recent arrival, and about half share a subfield with one. When each post is filled on its own, a cohort can duplicate strengths and leave gaps; planning the posts together avoids both.
Provost and dean searches rest on reputation, references and interview. The research record of the units a candidate has led is public and rarely read. Set against peer units over the same years, it gives a committee evidence an interview cannot.
Universities price appointments but seldom price departures. Across 29 Gulf universities, a fifth of researchers appear on about four in five of the most cited papers. In some fields, one departure puts about a third of that record at risk.
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