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In this work we examine the relationship between research performance, age,and seniority in academic rank of full professors in the Italian academicsystem. Differently from a large part of the previous literature, our resultsgenerally show a negative monotonic relationship between age and researchperformance, in all the disciplines under analysis. We also highlight apositive relationship between seniority in rank and performance, occurringparticularly in certain disciplines. While in Medicine, Biology and Chemistrythis result could be explained by the "accumulative advantage" effect, in otherdisciplines, like Civil engineering and Pedagogy and Psychology, it could bedue to the existence of a large performance differential between young andmature researchers, at the moment of the promotion to full professors. Theseresults, witnessed both generally and at the level of the individualdisciplines, offer useful insights for policy makers and academiaadministrators on the role of older professors.

The combined effects of age and seniority on research performance of full professors