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Quantity and/or Quality? The Importance of Publishing Many Papers

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  • Ulf Sandström
  • Peter van den Besselaar

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Do highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to produce top cited papers? Or do high productive researchers mainly produce a sea of irrelevant papers—in other words do we find a diminishing marginal result from productivity? The answer on these questions is important, as it may help to answer the question of whether the increased competition and increased use of indicators for research evaluation and accountability focus has perverse effects or not. We use a Swedish author disambiguated dataset consisting of 48.000 researchers and their WoS-publications during the period of 2008–2011 with citations until 2014 to investigate the relation between productivity and production of highly cited papers. As the analysis shows, quantity does make a difference.

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  • Ulf Sandström & Peter van den Besselaar, 2016. "Quantity and/or Quality? The Importance of Publishing Many Papers," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(11), pages 1-16, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0166149
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166149
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