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Exploring scientists’ working timetable: Do scientists often work overtime?
Journal of informetrics, v 6(4), pp 655-660
Oct 2012
Abstract
► A novel methodology is proposed to analyze scientists’ working timetable. ► Scientists are still engaged in their research after working hours. ► Scientists’ working time curves in different countries show different features.
A novel method is proposed to monitor and record scientists’ working timetable. We record the downloads information of scientific papers real-timely from Springer round the clock, and try to explore scientists’ working habits. As our observation demonstrates, many scientists are still engaged in their research after working hours every day. Many of them work far into the night, even till next morning. In addition, research work also intrudes into their weekends. Different working time patterns are revealed. In the US, overnight work is more prevalent among scientists, while Chinese scientists mostly have busy weekends with their scientific research.
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- Title
- Exploring scientists’ working timetable: Do scientists often work overtime?
- Creators
- Xianwen Wang - WISE Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116085, ChinaShenmeng Xu - WISE Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116085, ChinaLian Peng - WISE Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116085, ChinaZhi Wang - WISE Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116085, ChinaChuanli Wang - WISE Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116085, ChinaChunbo Zhang - WISE Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116085, ChinaXianbing Wang - Dalian University of TechnologyXuehang Wang - A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute
- Publication Details
- Journal of informetrics, v 6(4), pp 655-660
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000308581700024
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84864509141
- Other Identifier
- 991019173558604721
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