Productive scientists are associated with lower disruption in scientific publishing.

ABSTRACT: While scientific researchers often aim for high productivity, prioritizing the quantity of publications may come at the cost of time and effort dedicated to individual research. It is thus important to examine the relationship between productivity and disruption for individual researchers. Here, we show that with the increase in the number of published papers, the average citation per paper will be higher yet the mean disruption of papers will be lower. In addition, we find that the disruption of scientists' papers may decrease when they are highly productive in a given year. The disruption of papers in each year is not determined by the total number of papers published in the author's career, but rather by the productivity of that particular year. Besides, more productive authors also ten

SUBMITTER: Li H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11126996 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature