Study of COVID-19 impact on academic publishing patterns
Here's an interesting preprint (I am somewhat unclear where it stands in the publication process and if it's been through peer review, though it appears like it may come out in a UK Royal Society venue) which looks at publication patterns by discipline during the pandemic. There's been a lot of anecdote about what's happening here, but this is one of the few data-based presentations I've seen. My thanks to the amazing Gary Price for bring this to my attention. See
[2109.06591] The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic productivity
'Publish or perish' is an expression describing the pressure on academics to consistently publish research to ensure a successful career in academia. With a global pandemic that has changed the world, how has it changed academic productivity? Here we show that academics are posting just as many publications on the arXiv pre-print server as if there were no pandemic: 168,630 were posted in 2020, a +12.6% change from 2019 and $+1.4σ$ deviation above the predicted 162,577 $\pm$ 4,393. However, some...
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