Attitudes about publishing and normal science advancement

Highlights：

• Authors in biochemistry had on average twice the h-index of those in economics, anthropology and water resources.

• Biochemists had higher expectations than other disciplines about the number of articles required for hire and promotion.

• Biochemists more strongly valued interdisciplinary publishing, and felt the cutting edge of their science was clearer.

• Anthropologists exhibited a weaker relationship between h-index and the number of years since their first publication.

• H-index was more strongly related to years since first publication for physical anthropology than for cultural anthropology.