Japanese Researcher Career Progression and Institutional Mapping, 1970–2024

This dataset describes the career progression of Japanese researchers from doctoral graduation to assistant and full professor appointments, covering a 50-year period from 1970 to 2024. It includes a standardized mapping of over 9,500 institutions and is derived from aggregated researchmap profiles.

Use Cases

• Analyze academic mobility patterns by linking career progression data with standardized institutional attributes.
• Model the time from doctoral graduation to full professor appointment using longitudinal career data across all academic domains.
• Evaluate institutional characteristics and their correlation with researcher career trajectories over the 50-year period.
• Study cross-disciplinary comparability in promotion timelines and institutional affiliations.

Strengths

• Longitudinal depth of 50 years of academic career data (1970–2024).
• Standardized mapping of over 9,500 institutions for consistent analysis.
• Curated to support analyses of academic mobility and institutional characteristics.

Limitations

• Sample size and specific row counts are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Data is derived from self-reported researchmap profiles, which may contain reporting biases or inconsistencies.
• Geographic coverage is limited to Japan, reducing generalizability to other academic systems.

Provenance

Source

researchmap Web API.

Collection Method

Aggregated from researchmap profiles and curated.

Time Range

1970–2024.

Freshness

Data covers up to 2024 and was last updated in the repository on 2026-02-05.

Geography

Japan.