Quantity and/or quality? The importance of publishing many papers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Sandström, Ulf ^a   Van Besselaar, Peter Den ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; HUMAN; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIST; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIBLIOMETRICS; PERSONNEL; PUBLICATION; SWEDEN;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SWEDEN;

EID: 84995969113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166149     Document Type: Article

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