Are some academic fields “older” than others?
AARC has a manuscript in review about the publication activity of senior scholars - those nearing or beyond the traditional retirement age (a preprint version of the manuscript is available here: 10.31235/osf.io/vznty). Among our findings was that senior faculty members produce lots of publications, including many more books than their younger colleagues. This led us to wonder whether some academic fields had a relatively more senior (older) faculty than other fields? Is it the case that fast-moving fields like Computer [...]