The rhythms of scholarly publication: suggestions for academic research administrators making bibliometric comparisons across disciplines
In the tables presented here (https://osf.io/myaut/), we show data pertaining to publication rates and publication venues across 170 academic disciplines. We model the publication patterns of faculty members at U.S. research universities at different career stages, and in so doing we hope to provide a nuanced and up-to-date reference for faculty members, administrators, and staff charged with interpreting publication outputs across disciplines and in a comparative context. Not all active scholars in any field will follow the same pattern of publication, and not all articles or books are of equal value: these data do not reflect quality measures. Our goal is not to establish a template against which individual scholars should be measured, but to contextualize a general picture of publication patterns representative of each discipline, with the knowledge that there will be notable individual variations.