STATISTICAL-THEORY AIDS INFERENCE IN SCIENTOMETRICS - (COMMENTS TO PUBLICATION RATE AS A FUNCTION OF THE LABORATORY GROUP-SIZE BY QURASHI,MM.)
STATISTICAL-THEORY AIDS INFERENCE IN SCIENTOMETRICS - (COMMENTS TO PUBLICATION RATE AS A FUNCTION OF THE LABORATORY GROUP-SIZE BY QURASHI,MM.)
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DOI：
10.1007/bf02020111
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发表时间：
1984-01-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
COHEN, JE
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作者：
COHEN, JE
结论实验室规模可能影响人均科学发文量。然而，我所看到的对我的数据或其他数据的分析还没有令人信服地证明这种效应的存在。对500家领先工业公司的可专利研究的分析得出结论，每年申请的专利数量除以年销售额与年销售额无关，即平均而言，小型、中型和大型工业公司都具有同等的创造性。如果专利被视为衡量商业领域研究生产率的指标，如果销售额被视为衡量规模或研究努力的指标(公司的研究预算将是更好的衡量标准)，那么专利与总销售额之比与总销售额无关的这一发现，与我关于人均出版量与实验室规模无关的发现完全一致。这些发现的相似性表明，一般来说，一项研究工作的人均生产率与研究工作的总规模无关，无论背景是学术的还是商业的。无论这种经验总结最终是否得到证实，在我看来，这篇笔记的方法论信息似乎不那么有争议。
ConclusionsLaboratory size may affect the number of scientific publications per capita. However, no analysis I have seen of my data or of other data has demonstrated the existence of such an effect convincingly.An analysis5of patentable research among 500 leading industrial firms concluded that the number of patents filed per year divided by annual sales is independent of the annual sales, i.e., on the average, small, medium and large industrial firms are all equally inventive. If patents are viewed as a measure of research productivity in the commercial sector, and if sales are viewed as a measure of size or research effort (a company's research budget would be a better measure), then this finding that the ratio of patents to total sales is independent of total sales exactly parallels my finding that publications per capita are independent of laboratory size. The parallelism of these findings suggests the possibility that, in general, the productivity per capita of a research effort is independent of the total size of the research effort, whether the setting is academic or commercial.Whether or not this empirical generalization is ultimately confirmed, the methodological message of this note seems to me less arguable.