Table 2.
Results From Study 2: Descriptive Statistics for Participants Classified as Eminent in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM; n = 124)
| STEM leader criterion | Participants (n) |
Percentage of eminent participants | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Total | ||
| Tenured professor at R1 or international equivalent | 40 | 21 | 61 | 49.2 |
| Associate professor | 8 | 7 | 15 | 12.1 |
| Full professor | 32 | 14 | 46 | 37.1 |
| STEM Fortune 500 company senior executive | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3.2 |
| Senior position in government ≥ GS-14 or equivalent scale | 6 | 7 | 13 | 10.5 |
| GS-14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .8 |
| GS-15 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4.8 |
| Executive scale | 0 | 1 | 1 | .8 |
| Other scales | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4.0 |
| Patents ≥ 20 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 13.7 |
| Publications ≥ 75 | 35 | 15 | 50 | 40.3 |
| Median number of publications | 60 | |||
| Median h-index | 22 | |||
| NIH/NSF grants ≥ $2.75 million | 31 | 12 | 43 | 34.7 |
| Median grant number | 3 | |||
| Median grant total | $825K | |||
| Othera | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4.0 |
Note: Individuals who met multiple criteria (e.g., a full professor with 75 or more publications and government funding of at least $2.75 million) were counted in all categories for which they met the criteria. R1 = research-intensive university; NIH = National Institutes of Health; NSF = National Science Foundation.
The “other” group includes STEM leaders who are exceptions to the six criteria. These include an astronaut, a researcher who has multiple Nature and Science publications and over $3 million in nongovernment grants, a senior executive at a company that works on high-impact government projects, a full professor at a higher-research-activity university (R2) with both publication and funding totals just below our cutoffs, and a research supervisor in a national research laboratory who has over 60 publications.