TY - JOUR
T1 - Rising Quantitative Productivity and Shifting Readership in Academic Publishing
T2 - Bibliometric Insights from Monkeypox Literature
AU - Jain, Nityanand
AU - Tanasov, Andrei
AU - Chodnekar, Swarali Yatin
AU - Rakauskaite, Akvile
AU - Lansiaux, Edouard
AU - Skuja, Sandra
AU - Reinis, Aigars
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023/4/3
Y1 - 2023/4/3
N2 - The sudden international spread of the monkeypox virus has been accompanied by an increase in the scientific interest in the virus. More than 1,400 PubMed-indexed documents have been authored by about 5,800 unique authors, averaging around 120 publications per month. This sheer rise in the number led us to explore the type of content published in the literature. We discovered more than 30% of the documents are Quantitative Productivity (QP) i.e. papers that illustrate the emerging trends of parachute concerns, modified salami tactics, cyclic recycling, and excellence in redundancy. In addition, we found few common hyper-prolific authors previously identified in the COVID-19 literature. Further, we share our experience in publishing monkeypox literature and highlight the growing readership and citation interest in editorials, commentaries, correspondences, and similar editorial documents that were thought to be uncitable in the medical literature. As long as the scientific community and public demand, the supply of such papers will continue, with no responsibility on the authors, journals or the reader. Since overhauling the current system is an arduous task, we propose the optimization of existing retrieving services that would selectively filter documents based on article type (which also requires standardization of definitions) to dilute the crowding out effects of quantitative productivity.
AB - The sudden international spread of the monkeypox virus has been accompanied by an increase in the scientific interest in the virus. More than 1,400 PubMed-indexed documents have been authored by about 5,800 unique authors, averaging around 120 publications per month. This sheer rise in the number led us to explore the type of content published in the literature. We discovered more than 30% of the documents are Quantitative Productivity (QP) i.e. papers that illustrate the emerging trends of parachute concerns, modified salami tactics, cyclic recycling, and excellence in redundancy. In addition, we found few common hyper-prolific authors previously identified in the COVID-19 literature. Further, we share our experience in publishing monkeypox literature and highlight the growing readership and citation interest in editorials, commentaries, correspondences, and similar editorial documents that were thought to be uncitable in the medical literature. As long as the scientific community and public demand, the supply of such papers will continue, with no responsibility on the authors, journals or the reader. Since overhauling the current system is an arduous task, we propose the optimization of existing retrieving services that would selectively filter documents based on article type (which also requires standardization of definitions) to dilute the crowding out effects of quantitative productivity.
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - citations
KW - literatrue
KW - monkeypox
KW - Mpox
KW - publications
KW - references
UR - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37012606/
UR - https://www-webofscience-com.db.rsu.lv/wos/alldb/full-record/MEDLINE:37012606
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85152383415&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08989621.2023.2199159
DO - 10.1080/08989621.2023.2199159
M3 - Article
SN - 0898-9621
SP - 1
EP - 24
JO - Accountability in Research
JF - Accountability in Research
ER -