Observational study explores the relationship between productivity and disruption in scientific publishing, suggesting implications for career planning.
Key Points
This research examines how individual publication productivity affects disruption in scientific papers.
Analyzed the relationship between the number of publications and the average citations per paper.
Evaluated the mean disruption of papers associated with high productivity in specific years.
Assessed the reference patterns of productive authors in relation to recent high-impact research.
Increased publications correlate with higher average citations and lower mean disruption per paper.
Disruption decreases when researchers are highly productive in a given year.
Productive authors tend to reference more recent and impactful studies.