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No, that's reasonable. Look at is this way: the modal category of authors is the group that has published one paper. The next-largest group published two. And s
by misterdoubt 7y ago
No, that's reasonable. Look at is this way: the modal category of authors is the group that has published one paper. The next-largest group published two. And so on.
It's a very very small overall percentage of authors that publish more than one paper per year!
- radioactivist 7y agoI disagree. One paper per year for someone who started publishing in the 50s wouldn't be insane to me (though, low to my eye) -- but publishing one paper every few decades would be insane by any standard (and you couldn't get to millions of papers published per year at that rate).
- jrumbut 7y agoMy grandfather (born well before the 50s, but still) was a professor his entire career and I can't a single (unambiguous) publication of his online. I would not be surprised to learn there were no papers, although I believe a book chapter occurred at some point. My father, born in the 50s and like another commenter discussed primarily involved in industry, appears to have three or four.
- haihaibye 7y agoYour norms and intuitions are based the present craziness. Here's Higgs (of Higgs-Boson fame) who's published 10 papers since 1964: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...