Does Quantity Make a Difference? The importance of publishing many papers
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2015-10-08 v1
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.
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@article{arxiv.1510.01871,
title = {Does Quantity Make a Difference? The importance of publishing many papers},
author = {Peter van den Besselaar and Ulf Sandstrom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01871},
year = {2015}
}
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Presented at ISSI 2015, Istanbul