The Bologna reform’s impacts on the scientific publication performance of Ph.D. graduates—the case of Slovenia

In this paper, the impact of the Bologna reform is analyzed based on differences in scientific publication performance among the Ph.D. graduates that enrolled into doctoral study programs before the implementation of the Bologna reform in Slovenia (the pre-Bologna Ph.D. graduates) and those that enrolled after (the post-Bologna Ph.D. graduates). The transition between programs was not immediate; in Slovenia, the first Ph.D. students of the...