Закон качественного и количественного изменения производительности труда ученых в зависимости от их возраста.

In average the quantitative peak of scientific productivity of a scientist is 35 years, however the quality and importance of scientific work with age continuously increase. A function of productivity of a scientist in dependence on his or her age – is more intriguing, delicate and problematic theme. It is turned out that the peak of productivity of a scientist is in average 35 years with a following smooth slope. It is represented for us that the analysis of this function only for decisions about the part of participation of mature scientists in research work is wrong.

Usually in the science about science one refuses to consider in essence the question about importance of scientific works in dependence on age of scientists. And in such an incomplete scientific analysis the danger of wrong conclusions exist. For example, a conclusion about decrease of productivity of mature scientist. This is the root of all evil when a scientist in his or her prime and creative analysis is sent to be retired, depriving of the scientific youth of experienced mentor and generating in the same youth the uncertainty in future and selfishness bringing the science in conditions of its still increasing collectivization still the increasing harm.

The explanation is quite simple: experienced scientists with time stop to waste time for trifles and with more pleasure and excitement take up decision of complicated, fundamental, «everlasting» scientific problems. This objectively approaches the mankind to solution of such problems and provides with conditions for scientific breakthrough. Thus, one can safely say that from the point of view of the benefit of science and society as a whole it is unreasonable to send for retirement the mature scientists and take them away from creative collectives, and it is even a crime.

Thus, if one considers two functions in correlation: the function of dependence of the number of productivity of a scientist (as a rule, this is a number of papers published per year) and the function of the generalhuman importance of his or her works (which can be measured by a way of expert evaluation of approximation of problems under consideration to the world problems), then in many cases (of course, statistically) in connection with the exponential growth of the last function the total function, let’s call it «the function of benefit of scientist for the society» demonstrates undoubted tendency to a steady growth with increase of scientist age, who keeps his or her good physical form.