Timeline for Quantitatively speaking, which subject area in mathematics is currently the most research active?
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| May 27, 2011 at 14:31 | comment | added | Nilima Nigam | It would be interested to see the statistics on average numbers of citations per paper as well. And Pete is correct- someone is interested in these measures. Canadian funding agencies go through this exercise every two years to assess which field to fund, and how much. Crude, disgusting, but there you have it. | |
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| Jan 5, 2010 at 12:34 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | This sort of quantitative measure has a clear bias, to which you are already alluding in your last sentence: "as has been the case for at least one hundred years". Since areas of research are, in most cases, inherited and since in many countries hirings are still very much "endogamous" (meaning people tend to hire their students), you can see how this sort of "popularity" can be maintained. I honestly do not think that this numbers game can teach us much. | |
| Jan 5, 2010 at 12:18 | history | answered | Pete L. Clark | CC BY-SA 2.5 |