A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication output among ecologists

摘要: Publication output is the standard by which scientific productivity evaluated. Despite a plethora of papers on issue publication and citation biases, no study has so far considered possible effect social activities output. One most frequent in world drinking alcohol. In Europe, alcohol consumed as beer and, based well known negative effects consumption cognitive performance, I predicted correlations between several measures performance. Using survey from Czech Republic, that highest per capita rate world, show increasing associated with lower numbers papers, total citations, citations paper (a surrogate measure quality). addition found same trends comparison two separate geographic areas within Republic are also to differ rates. These consistent possibility leisure time might influence quality quantity work may be potential sources biases.