Title
The skewness of scientific productivity.
Abstract
•We use a 2003–2011 dataset of 17.2 million authors in 30 scientific fields.•We study the number of articles and the mean citation per article per person.•We study the entire population, and the subset with above average productivity.•Main result: the shape of productivity distributions is very similar across fields.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.006
Journal of Informetrics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Individual scientist's productivity distributions,Skewness of science,Disambiguation algorithm,Co-authorship
Journal
8
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1751-1577
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.66
20
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Javier Ruiz-Castillo136624.81
Rodrigo Costas274143.30