The community of scientists is characterized by their need to publish in peer-reviewed journals, in an attempt to avoid the "perish" side of the famous maxim. Accordingly, almost all researchers authored some scientific articles. Scholarly publications represent at least two benefits for the study of the scientific community as a social group. First, they attest of some form of relation between scientists (collaborations, mentoring, heritage,...), useful to determine and analyze social subgroups. Second, most of them are recorded in large data bases, easily accessible and including a lot of pertinent information, easing the quantitative and qualitative study of the scientific community. Understanding the underlying dynamics driving the creation of knowledge in general, and of scientific publication in particular, in addition to its interest from the social science point of view, can contribute to maintaining a high level of research, by identifying good and bad practices in science. In this manuscript, we attempt to advance this understanding by a statistical analysis of publications within peer-reviewed journals. Namely, we show that the distribution of the number of articles published by an author in a given journal is heavy-tailed, but has lighter tail than a power law. Moreover, we observe some anomalies in the data that pinpoint underlying dynamics of the scholarly publication process.

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科学期刊中出版物数量的重尾分布

科学家社区的特点是他们需要在同行评审的期刊上发表文章，以试图避免著名格言的“灭亡”一面。因此，几乎所有研究人员都撰写了一些科学文章。学术出版物至少代表了科学界作为一个社会群体的研究的两个好处。首先，它们证明了科学家之间的某种形式的关系（合作、指导、遗产……），有助于确定和分析社会亚群。其次，它们中的大多数都记录在大型数据库中，易于访问并包含大量相关信息，便于科学界的定量和定性研究。了解推动知识创造，特别是科学出版物创造的潜在动力，除了从社会科学的角度来看它的兴趣之外，它还可以通过识别科学中的好坏做法来促进保持高水平的研究。在这份手稿中，我们试图通过对同行评审期刊中出版物的统计分析来推进这种理解。也就是说，我们表明作者在给定期刊上发表的文章数量分布是重尾分布，但比幂律具有更轻的尾分布。此外，我们观察到数据中的一些异常现象，这些异常现象指出了学术出版过程的潜在动态。我们试图通过对同行评审期刊中的出版物进行统计分析来促进这种理解。也就是说，我们表明作者在给定期刊上发表的文章数量分布是重尾分布，但比幂律具有更轻的尾分布。此外，我们观察到数据中的一些异常现象，这些异常现象指出了学术出版过程的潜在动态。我们试图通过对同行评审期刊中的出版物进行统计分析来促进这种理解。也就是说，我们表明作者在给定期刊上发表的文章数量分布是重尾分布，但比幂律具有更轻的尾分布。此外，我们观察到数据中的一些异常现象，这些异常现象指出了学术出版过程的潜在动态。