The article linked below was published today by Scientometrics.
Title
Measuring the diversity of publications among the most productive researchers: how research trajectories differ in communication, psychology and political science
Authors
Manuel Goyanes University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Martin Demeter National Civil Service University, Budapest, Hungary
Zicheng Cheng Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Homer Gil de Zúñiga University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Source
Scientometrics (2022)
DO I: 10.1007/s11192-022-04386-7
Summary
Examining research patterns in scientific fields is a growing research enterprise to understand how global knowledge production takes place. However, scattered empirical evidence has shed light on how the diversity of publications of the most productive scholars differs across disciplines, given their gender and geographic representation. This study focuses on the most prolific researchers in three fields (communication, political science and psychology) and examines everything journals where they have published.
Source: 10.1007/s11192-022-04386-7
The results revealed the most common journals in which prolific researchers appeared and showed that communication researchers are more likely to publish in political science and psychology journals than vice versa, while psychologists largely neglect them. . Our results also demonstrate that American men and academics are overrepresented in all fields, and that neither field, gender, geographic location, or the interaction between gender and geographic location has a significant influence on the variety of publications. The study suggests that prolific researchers are not only productive, but also highly diverse in the selection of journals they publish, which speaks directly to both the heterogeneity of their research contributions and target readership.
