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In an attempt to isolate predictive correlates of the publishing of articles and books by social scientists, a questionnaire was sent out. It inquired into the relationships between amount and quality of publication by social scientists and various educational factors. Several of the factors studied are found to show potential utility for predicting productivity.
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Bernard N. Meltzer (1949) studied this question.
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