The '''academic age''' is the time that a scientist has been in the research field and performed active research. The academic age of a scientist may be computed as the span of years from their first published work up until the present.<ref name="Do gender, nationality, or academic age affect review decisions">{{Cite journal |author-link1=Richard Primack |author1=Richard B. Primack |author2=Elizabeth Ellwood |author3=Abraham J. Miller-Rushing |author4=Rob Marrs |author5=Adrian Mulligan |doi=10.1016/J.BIOCON.2009.06.021 |issn=0006-3207 |issue=11 |journal=Biological Conservation |language=en |pages=2415–2418 |date=November 2009 |title=Do gender, nationality, or academic age affect review decisions? An analysis of submissions to the journal Biological Conservation |volume=142}}</ref> Another definition regards the academic age as the time since their doctoral degree.<ref>{{Cite journal |author-link1=Cassidy Sugimoto |author1=Cassidy R. Sugimoto |author2=Thomas J. Sugimoto |author3=Andrew Tsou |author4=Staša Milojević |author5=Vincent Larivière |doi=10.1007/S11192-016-2087-Y |issn=0138-9130 |issue=2 |journal=Scientometrics |language=en |pages=997–1016 |date=29 July 2016 |title=Age stratification and cohort effects in scholarly communication: a study of social sciences |volume=109}}</ref>
When the academic age is computed in formal settings, the academic age may be adjusted taking into account maternity and paternity leave, long-term illness, clinical training and/or national service.<ref>ERC Work Programme 2018</ref>
The academic age may be used as one of the components in scientometrics studies, particularly author-level metrics.<ref>{{Cite journal |arxiv=1210.3727 |author1=Staša Milojević |bibcode=2012PLoSO...749176M |doi=10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0049176 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |issue=11 |journal=PLOS One |language=en |article-number=e49176 |pmc=3492318 |pmid=23145111 |date=7 November 2012 |title=How are academic age, productivity and collaboration related to citing behavior of researchers? |url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0049176&type=printable |volume=7}}</ref><ref name="Do gender, nationality, or academic age affect review decisions"/>
The academic age may be a strict criterion for certain grant applications. For instance, the European Research Council has several funding schemes restricted to specific academic ages: So-called Starting Grants require an academic age of 2 to 7 years,<ref>{{Cite web | title = Starting Grants | date = 5 September 2024 | url = https://erc.europa.eu/funding/starting-grants | publisher = European Research Council }}</ref> Consolidator grants require an academic age of 7 to 12 years<ref>{{Cite web | title = Consolidator Grants | date = 23 January 2024 | url = https://erc.europa.eu/funding/consolidator-grants | publisher = European Research Council }}</ref> and Advanced Grants require "a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years".<ref>{{Cite web | title = Advanced Grants | date = 17 June 2025 | url = https://erc.europa.eu/funding/advanced-grants | publisher = European Research Council }}</ref>
==See also== * Author-level metrics * Scientometrics
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