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That line of reasoning isn't convincing to me (though I have no data to confirm or deny it); CS could still be a more prolific paper writing community, just tha
by LukeShu 11y ago
That line of reasoning isn't convincing to me (though I have no data to confirm or deny it); CS could still be a more prolific paper writing community, just that papers compete more for citations. In CS if I want to cite something, I have my choice of 10 papers from the same era from roughly the same group of people saying roughly the same thing (some might prefer to cite earlier papers, as the "original", others might prefer later papers as the ideas are more clarified). In other fields, there might be one "standard" paper to cite for a era/topic/group.
- mrdrozdov 11y agoCouldn't you say the same about other fields? Although I understand where you are coming from. If I wanted to make a more accurate comparison it'd only be fair to examine the distributions of different fields as well as their top performers, but I still think that is too huge a gap to make up for anything besides some heavily skewed distributions.
- LukeShu 11y agoDefinitely! I don't have the breadth of experience or data to really judge how it compares from CS to other fields.