Publishing? You can count on knowledge, experience, and expectations

The study based on an online survey covering 655 researchers from hard and soft sciences addresses the infuence of diferent conditions on academic publishing. Results show that (1) hard sciences academics publish more than soft sciences; (2) there are resemblances in academic publishing; (3) there are diferences in the sufcient conditions sets for the two groups of sciences which may be explained by diferences in scientifc conceptual frameworks and research methods applied in each group of disciplines; (4) conditions leading to the absence of publishing reveal similarities and diferences among hard and soft sciences academics. The study contribute to: (1) the debate on the questionable generalization of scientifc publications indexes and rankings due to the nature of research published coming from diferent scientifc universes; (2) identify pathways for achieving higher performance in academic publishing; (3) allow research centers’ managers to better manage the centers aiming to achieve upper output levelsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio