An investigation on the skewness patterns and fractal nature of research productivity distributions at field and discipline level

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Highlights：

• Research productivity distributions are investigated by the CSS technique.

• The analysis is carried out at field (180) and discipline (10) level.

• Skewness varies substantially among the fields within the aggregate disciplines.

• At field level the fractal nature of the distributions occurs in very few cases.

摘要

•Research productivity distributions are investigated by the CSS technique.•The analysis is carried out at field (180) and discipline (10) level.•Skewness varies substantially among the fields within the aggregate disciplines.•At field level the fractal nature of the distributions occurs in very few cases.

论文关键词：Bibliometrics,Research evaluation,FSS,Italy,CSS

论文评审过程：Received 19 December 2016, Revised 1 February 2017, Accepted 1 February 2017, Available online 20 February 2017, Version of Record 20 February 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.02.001