
Is it worth the time?
One of the things I have been thinking about lately is how to further increase my own productivity. Regardless of your career goals, increasing your productivity is only going to help you accomplish more (by definition) and increase your esteem as a professional. Productivity is an interesting concept to me because it is, to a large extent, quantifiable. How many papers did you publish this year? How much funding did you bring in? What kinds of committees did you serve on and what did you accomplish exactly? All of these variables represent some measure of a person’s productivity. Naturally, a lot of effort is spent on determining what the best measures of an individual’s productivity are – and this is a very healthy and necessary practice. For academics and researchers, these measures usually boil down to the quality and quantity of published papers (not always in that order).






