An article in the journal PLoS 1 presents an analysis of authors who
publish a large volume of articles and whether these make it to the
top 1% of citations. The question is whether such high output
researchers
put out mostly, oh what is the technical term, ah, crap, in comparison
to people who publish a smaller number of articles. Their results are
interesting in that old high volume authors appear to have higher
quality
(as measured by citations) than recent authors. Here's the ref for
the article:
Larivière V, Costas R (2016) How Many Is Too Many? On the Relationship
between Research Productivity and Impact. PLoS ONE 11(9): e0162709.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162709
The article can be accessed here:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0162709
A popular media account is provided here:
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/47147/title/Does-Productivity-Diminish-Research-Quality-/&utm_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TS_The-Scientist-Daily_2016&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=35090767&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_-mTjrAnZ9l5jEvpki9bdmoSHuM6x-B2GQ2kRFzqSoMbzeiAXmvzxJXFTy3kCjuSMLAt03Db42l4_XiIC0j9qyrhBY8w&_hsmi=35091145
So, younger productive researchers, the lesson is clear: you're screwed!
;-)
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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