Postdocs rated the External Pressure scale higher than did full and associate professors. This too could be explained by postdocs, as junior researchers, being more dependent on and influenced by their advisors and supervisors, including receiving suggestions on how to promote their scholarship by using RIMSs. On the other hand, senior researchers, by advising their junior colleagues to maintain their profiles, may be motivating themselves to lead by example. One full professor made the following observation: