dc.contributor.author | Fanelli, Daniele | |
dc.contributor.author | Larivière, Vincent | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-03T13:49:50Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | fr |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-03T13:49:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-03-09 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23179 | |
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 | Researchers’ individual publication rate has not increased in a century | 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.0149504 | |
dcterms.abstract | Debates over the pros and cons of a “publish or perish” philosophy have inflamed academia
for at least half a century. Growing concerns, in particular, are expressed for policies that
reward “quantity” at the expense of “quality,” because these might prompt scientists to
unduly multiply their publications by fractioning (“salami slicing”), duplicating, rushing, simplifying,
or even fabricating their results. To assess the reasonableness of these concerns,
we analyzed publication patterns of over 40,000 researchers that, between the years 1900
and 2013, have published two or more papers within 15 years, in any of the disciplines covered
by the Web of Science. The total number of papers published by researchers during
their early career period (first fifteen years) has increased in recent decades, but so has
their average number of co-authors. If we take the latter factor into account, by measuring
productivity fractionally or by only counting papers published as first author, we observe no
increase in productivity throughout the century. Even after the 1980s, adjusted productivity
has not increased for most disciplines and countries. These results are robust to methodological
choices and are actually conservative with respect to the hypothesis that publication
rates are growing. Therefore, the widespread belief that pressures to publish are causing
the scientific literature to be flooded with salami-sliced, trivial, incomplete, duplicated, plagiarized
and false results is likely to be incorrect or at least exaggerated. | fr |
dcterms.isPartOf | urn:ISSN:1932-6203 | fr |
dcterms.language | eng | fr |
UdeM.ReferenceFournieParDeposant | Researchers’ Individual Publication Rate Has Not Increased in a Century
Fanelli, D. et Larivière, V. (2016). Researchers’ Individual Publication Rate Has Not Increased in a Century. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0149504. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149504 | fr |
UdeM.VersionRioxx | Version publiée / Version of Record | fr |
oaire.citationTitle | PLoS one | |
oaire.citationVolume | 11 | |
oaire.citationIssue | 3 | |