The skewness of scientific productivity

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Highlights：

• We use a 2003–2011 dataset of 17.2 million authors in 30 scientific fields.

• We study the number of articles and the mean citation per article per person.

• We study the entire population, and the subset with above average productivity.

• Main result: the shape of productivity distributions is very similar across fields.

摘要

•We use a 2003–2011 dataset of 17.2 million authors in 30 scientific fields.•We study the number of articles and the mean citation per article per person.•We study the entire population, and the subset with above average productivity.•Main result: the shape of productivity distributions is very similar across fields.

论文关键词：Individual scientist's productivity distributions,Skewness of science,Disambiguation algorithm,Co-authorship

论文评审过程：Received 8 May 2014, Revised 15 August 2014, Accepted 22 September 2014, Available online 14 October 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.006