In today's society, everything is measured and evaluated to a greater extent and in more detail than before, regardless of industry or sector, this encompasses the academia as well. Within academia it is known that the most important metric is the number of published articles in highly regarded journals. This greatly influences how the university is ranked and thus how much financial support the university gets for further research. In a comparison between academia and other sectors, there is a lack of research on how universities work with Talent Management in order to gain knowledge on how to increase the output, i.e. published articles. The purpose of this research is to find out if the pareto rule is applicable to the academia when it comes to output, i.e. published articles. The hypothesis is that a minority of the professors at universities counts for the majority of published articles, with other words follows the pareto law.In our research we will investigate how different Talent Managementpolicies possibly can affect the output spread differently and how different departments’ outputmay follow the Pareto law or not. To conduct this research the core data has been collected from a few different sources. Firstly, the article data has been sourced from the database website “Scopus.com”and secondly from each Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona and Chalmers University of Technology. This data consisted of was the names, departments, and position of each publisherat each university. Each publisher was then matched to the published articles from the years between 2013-2018. By doing that, each publisher could then be accounted for a specific output during these years. This step was followed by a analysis were numbers were out into graphs andpatterns could be identified. The main findings from this research was that both universities with its departments followed one of total five different distribution patterns, this were named into names that best described the shape of the distribution curve. The horse, the dromedary, the camel, the snake and the ant werethe given names. The research ended up in a framework that can be used for organizations that want to classify the organization as a whole or a specific department. Each shape, or animal, tell how mature the specific organization/department is when it comes to research culture.The animals togethercan be seen as a timeline of research development history.By knowing the status and/or how mature the organization is, a talent management policy can be chosen in order to get the organization into desired direction

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