Does Quantity Make a Difference? The importance of publishing many papers
Abstract
Do highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to produce top cited papers? Or does the increased productivity in science only result in a sea of irrelevant papers as a perverse effect of competition and the increased use of indicators for research evaluation and accountability focus? We use a Swedish author disambiguated data set consisting of 48,000 researchers and their WoS-publications during the period of 2008 2011 with citations until 2014 to investigate the relation between productivity and production of highly cited papers. As the analysis shows, quantity does make a difference.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1510.01871
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1510.01871
- Bibcode:
- 2015arXiv151001871V
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Digital Libraries
- E-Print:
- Presented at ISSI 2015, Istanbul