Study shows prestigious institutions produce more published manuscripts because they have a bigger labor pool

Bob Yirka is a research scientist at Phys.org.

The reason more prestigious universities are able to publish more scientific papers is that they have a larger pool of undergrads, fellows and postdocs to assist with such efforts.

In their paper, titled "Analyzing massive amounts of data in the Web of Science database to learn more about publishing by institutions in the U.S.", the authors describe how they analyzed massive amounts of data in the Web of Science database to learn more about publishing by institutions in the U

The majority of prestigious science paper publishing institutions in the U.S. are college based. The University of California is one of the most well known. There are a lot of science research papers published by researchers at these institutions.

The research group wanted to understand why prestigious institutions produce more published manuscripts than less prestigious institutions.

The work involved sifting data from the Web of Science database, which is a portal to several other databases, all of which contain massive amounts of data related to science research The data from 1.6 million published articles was included in the effort by the researchers.

There are 26 U.S. universities that grant PhDs. The researchers focused on the data that described the productivity of the authors involved in the research effort.

More prestigious schools tend to produce more papers because there are more people available to work on them. The senior- and junior-level people working on the papers were not more productive than other people working in less prestigious institutions, according to them.

If more qualified people were available to work on research and publishing efforts, less prestigious institutions could possibly increase their publication rates.

The productivity of faculty at elite universities is driven by labor advantages. There is a book titled "Sci Adv.abq7056."

Journal information: Science Advances

There is a science network.

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