发表或灭亡:用最大熵原理和涨落耗散定理分析科学生产力
Publish or perish: analysis of scientific productivity using maximum entropy principle and fluctuation-dissipation theorem
摘要:
利用INSPEC数据库中检索到的数据,我们定量地讨论了“不死即亡”现象的几个综合征,包括科学生产率的持续增长和长期从事科学工作的科学家的比例持续下降。利用最大熵原理和涨落耗散定理,我们证明了科学家发表论文总数x的厚尾分布可能是由科学共同体的态密度函数g(x;τ)引起的.虽然不同世代的科学家具有不同的生产力模式,但函数g(x;τ)是给定资历τ的研究人员所固有的,而“要么死要么亡”现象只是由影响研究人员的外部场θ引起的。
英文摘要:
Using data retrieved from the INSPEC database we have quantitatively discussed a few syndromes of the publish-or-perish phenomenon, including continuous growth of rate of scientific productivity, and continuously decreasing percentage of those scientists who stay in science for a long time. Making use of the maximum entropy principle and fluctuation-dissipation theorem, we have shown that the observed fat-tailed distributions of the total number of papers x authored by scientists may result from the density of states function g(x;τ) underlying scientific community. Although different generations of scientists are characterized by different productivity patterns, the function g(x;τ) is inherent to researchers of a given seniority τ, whereas the publish-or-perish phenomenon is caused only by an external field θinfluencing researchers.
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