The discussion on this infogram made me wonder about the number of PhD students that a full research professor successfully graduates in their entire career. By professor, I mean a full professor, not an associate or exclusively teaching professor or other positions referred to as professor depending on field and location. Of course, the answer is not a single number, but rather a probability density function that is a function of field, place, time, university, and probably other factors. To narrow the scope, I formulate the question as:
For selected fields and countries, what are recent figures on the mean and standard deviation (alternatively median and median absolute deviation, in case the distribution is non-Gaussian) for the number of PhD students successfully graduated per professor throughout their entire career?
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