Trends of research productivity across author gender and research fields: A multidisciplinary and multi-country observational study.

ABSTRACT: Bibliographic properties of more than 75 million scholarly articles, are examined and trends in overall research productivity are analysed as a function of research field (over the period of 1970-2020) and author gender (over the period of 2006-2020). Potential disruptive effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are also investigated. Over the last decade (2010-2020), the annual number of publications have invariably increased every year with the largest relative increase in a single year happening in 2019 (more than 6% relative growth). But this momentum was interrupted in 2020. Trends show that Environmental Sciences and Engineering Environmental have been the fastest growing research fields. The disruption in patterns of scholarly publication due to the Covid-19 pandemic was unevenly distribute

SUBMITTER: Haghani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9365186 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature