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Air Force Institute of Technology Research Report 2001
This report summarizes the research activities of the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management. It describes research interests and faculty expertise; lists student theses/dissertations; identifies research sponsors and contributions; and outlines the procedures for contacting the school. Included in the report are: faculty publications, conference presentations, consultations, and funded research projects. Research was conducted in the areas of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electro-Optics, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Systems and Engineering Management, Operational Sciences, and Engineering Physics
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The skewness of scientific productivity
This paper exploits a unique 2003-2011 large dataset, indexed by Thomson & Reuters, consisting of
17.2 million disambiguated authors classified into 30 broad scientific fields, as well as the 48.2
million articles resulting from a multiplying strategy in which any article co-authored by two or more
persons is wholly assigned as many times as necessary to each of them. The dataset is characterized
by a large proportion of authors who have their oeuvre in several fields. We measure individual
productivity in two ways that are uncorrelated: as the number of articles per person, and as the mean
citation per article per person in the 2003-2011 period. We analyze the shape of the two types of
individual productivity distributions in each field using size- and scale-independent indicators. For
productivity inequality, we use the coefficient of variation. To assess the skewness of productivity
distributions we use a robust index of skeweness, as well as the Characteristic Scores and Scales
approach. For productivity inequality, we use the coefficient of variation. In each field, we study two
samples: the entire population, and what we call “successful authors”, namely, the subset of
scientists whose productivity is above their field average. The main result is that, in spite of wide
differences in production and citation practices across fields, the shape of field productivity
distributions are very similar across fields. The parallelism of the results for the population as a
whole and for the subset of successful authors when productivity is measured as mean citation per
article per person, reveals the fractal nature of the skewness of scientific productivity in this case.
These results are essentially maintained when any article co-authored by two or more persons is
fractionally assigned to each of them.Ruiz-Castillo also acknowledges financial help from the Spanish MEC through
grant ECO2010-19596
Air Force Institute of Technology Research Report 2006
This report summarizes the research activities of the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management. It describes research interests and faculty expertise; lists student theses/dissertations; identifies research sponsors and contributions; and outlines the procedures for contacting the school. Included in the report are: faculty publications, conference presentations, consultations, and funded research projects. Research was conducted in the areas of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electro-Optics, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Systems and Engineering Management, Operational Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics and Engineering Physics
Engineering Division
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