CInSt Research Seminar "Researchers’ Risk-Smoothing Publication Strategies: Is Productivity the Enemy of Impact?"
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Researchers’ Risk-Smoothing Publication Strategies: Is Productivity the Enemy of Impact?
Sergey Kolesnikov* (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia)
Abstract
This study contributes to a long-standing discussion of the character of relationship between scientists' publishing productivity and citation-based publication impact. Its focus is on the role that risk-smoothing publication strategies may play in this relationship in the analysis of bibliometric data from Scopus for 227 full professors of chemistry and 148 full professors of mechanical engineering at ten research-intensive universities in the United States. The results indicate some evidence for the “productivity is the enemy of impact” hypothesis in chemistry, where publishing at the higher margin of productivity leads to a stagnant or declining publication impact. Findings differ for mechanical engineering, where higher publishing productivity consistently leads to higher publication impact. We attribute the differences in findings between the disciplines to a higher propensity for productivity-focused publication strategies in chemistry than in mechanical engineering.
*Co-authors:
Eriko Fukumoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
Barry Bozeman, Arizona State University, USA
Date and time: November 29, 2018; 5 PM
Place: 4 Slavyanskaya Square, bld. 2, Moscow, Room 101-102
Language: English
Free entrance.
If you don't have an HSE ID, please send your name and surname to lovakov@hse.ru before 13:00, November 29.
Sergey Kolesnikov* (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia)
Abstract
This study contributes to a long-standing discussion of the character of relationship between scientists' publishing productivity and citation-based publication impact. Its focus is on the role that risk-smoothing publication strategies may play in this relationship in the analysis of bibliometric data from Scopus for 227 full professors of chemistry and 148 full professors of mechanical engineering at ten research-intensive universities in the United States. The results indicate some evidence for the “productivity is the enemy of impact” hypothesis in chemistry, where publishing at the higher margin of productivity leads to a stagnant or declining publication impact. Findings differ for mechanical engineering, where higher publishing productivity consistently leads to higher publication impact. We attribute the differences in findings between the disciplines to a higher propensity for productivity-focused publication strategies in chemistry than in mechanical engineering.
*Co-authors:
Eriko Fukumoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
Barry Bozeman, Arizona State University, USA
Date and time: November 29, 2018; 5 PM
Place: 4 Slavyanskaya Square, bld. 2, Moscow, Room 101-102
Language: English
Free entrance.
If you don't have an HSE ID, please send your name and surname to lovakov@hse.ru before 13:00, November 29.
Date
29 November
17:00