The paper examines data on publications of Italian scholars in Humanities and Social Sciences in the 2002-2012 period in order to derive distribution functions of individual productivity. It finds that the same master curve fits equally well the distributions of publications in SSH and in life and hard sciences. It discusses the possible explanations of this new finding.
Do social sciences and humanities behave like life and hard sciences?
BONACCORSI, ANDREA;
2017-01-01
Abstract
The paper examines data on publications of Italian scholars in Humanities and Social Sciences in the 2002-2012 period in order to derive distribution functions of individual productivity. It finds that the same master curve fits equally well the distributions of publications in SSH and in life and hard sciences. It discusses the possible explanations of this new finding.File in questo prodotto:
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