Bibliometric analysis of the impact of internet use on scholarly productivity

✍ Scribed by Kaminer, Noam ;Braunstein, Yale M.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 175 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199806)49:8<720::aid-asi6>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

Variables measuring the nature and level of Internet us-correlated with productivity. The number of years since age by natural scientists improve the explanatory power the Ph.D. degree was received has a positive effect on of a traditional bibliographic model of scholarly producpublication productivity.

tivity. The data used to construct these variables come Meltzer (1949), in a study of social scientists, found from the log files generated by the internal accounting that two age-related variables affected overall career promodules of the UNIX operating system. The effects of Internet usage on productivity are quantifiable, and it is ductivity: Age when Ph.D. was granted and age when the possible to calculate tradeoffs between Internet usage first publication appeared. Clark and Centra (1985) found and the more traditional inputs.

''professional age,'' i.e., the time since the scholar has received his or her Ph.D., to be a significant variable in * To whom all correspondence should be addressed.