Educational researchers are increasingly expected to focus on their research productivity as per their professional performance. Such a trend may have influenced their professional identities and activities, especially in the Global South, where researchers have not been immersed in the new research culture and where their assumed primary role may…

Reports rankings and analyses of educational researchers' productivity and citations in both scholarly and textbook literature. Finds that journal productivity rises to a peak at about age 45 and then declines gradually, but that citations rise to a maximum and continuing level at about age 55. (Author/GC)