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Research productivity and breadth of interest of computer scientists

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The relationship between research productivity of computer scientists (as indicated by the number of papers published) and the breadth of research interest was investigated. A random sample of 419 authors was drawn from a four‐year cumulative author index of Computer and Control Abstracts. Data on the number of papers published by these authors and the subject dispersion of these papers were also gathered from Computer and Control Abstracts. A moderately strong positive correlation was found between the number of papers published by each author and the number of subfields of computer science in which these papers were published. Research productivity and breadth of research interest of computer scientists appear to be directly related. It also appears that computer scientists have a more diversified research interest within their own field than environmental scientists who tend to work consistently in a well‐defined subfield of their discipline.

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  • K. Subramanyam, 1984. "Research productivity and breadth of interest of computer scientists," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 35(6), pages 369-371, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:35:y:1984:i:6:p:369-371
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.4630350609
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    1. Camil Demetrescu & Irene Finocchi & Andrea Ribichini & Marco Schaerf, 2022. "On computer science research and its temporal evolution," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(8), pages 4913-4938, August.

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