dc.contributor.author | Larivière, Vincent | |
dc.contributor.author | Costas, Rodrigo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-31T16:23:12Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | fr |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-31T16:23:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-09-28 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23162 | |
dc.publisher | Public library of science | fr |
dc.rights | Ce document est mis à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Paternité 4.0 International. / This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.title | How many is too many? : on the relationship between research productivity and impact | fr |
dc.type | Article | fr |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Université de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information | fr |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0162709 | |
dcterms.abstract | Over the last few decades, the institutionalisation of quantitative research evaluations has
created incentives for scholars to publish as many papers as possible. This paper assesses
the effects of such incentives on individual researchers’ scientific impact, by analysing the
relationship between their number of articles and their proportionof highly cited papers. In
other words, does the share of an author’s top 1% most cited papers increase, remain stable, or decrease as his/her total number of papers increase? Using a large dataset of disambiguated researchers (N = 28,078,476) over the 1980–2013 period, this paper shows that,
on average, the higher the number of papers a researcher publishes, the higher the proportion of these papers are amongst the most cited. This relationship is stronger for older
cohorts of researchers, while decreasing returns to scale are observed for recent cohorts.
On the whole, these results suggest that for established researchers, the strategy of publishing as many papers as possible did not yield lower shares of highly cited publications,
but such a pattern is not always observed for younger scholars. | fr |
dcterms.isPartOf | urn:ISSN:1932-6203 | fr |
dcterms.language | eng | fr |
UdeM.ReferenceFournieParDeposant | Larivière V, Costas R (2016) How Many Is
Too Many? On the Relationship between Research
Productivity and Impact. PLoS ONE 11(9): e0162709.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162709 | fr |
UdeM.VersionRioxx | Version publiée / Version of Record | fr |
oaire.citationTitle | PLoS one | |
oaire.citationVolume | 11 | |
oaire.citationIssue | 9 | |