A macro analysis of productivity differences across fields: Challenges in the measurement of scientific publishing

摘要: While many studies have compared research productivity across scientific fields, they mostly focused on the "hard sciences," in cases due to limited publication data for "softer" disciplines; these also typically been based a small sample of researchers. In this study we use complete all researchers employed at Norwegian universities over 4-year period, linked biographic each researcher. Using detailed and set, compare between five main domains subfields within them, academic positions, terms age gender. The study's key finding is that from medicine, natural sciences, technology are most productive when whole counts publications used, while humanities social sciences article fractionalized according total number authors. strong differences fields publishing forms patterns coauthorship raise questions as whether indicators can justifiably be used comparison disciplines.