2021 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Directionality of paper reviewing and publishing of a scientist: A Granger causality inference
AUTHOR
Chunli Wei, Yi Bu, Lele Kang, Jiang Li
ABSTRACT
It has been evidenced that peer review activities are positively correlated to scientists' bibliometric performance (e.g., Ortega, 2017, 2019). However, how the number of paper 'reviewing' interacts with a scientist's 'publishing' has not been addressed in previous studies. This paper attempts to employ the Granger causality inference to explore the directionality between a scientist's publication performance and his/her review activities. Our dataset comprises scientists' reviewed articles derived from Publons in the Web of Knowledge database, and their publications retrieved from PubMed. We find that scientists who reviewed less or published less tend to have Granger causality between reviewing and publishing activities. In addition, compared with early-career researchers, reviewing advances publishing for senior scientists.
KEYWORDS
Granger Causality Inference; Peer Review; Scientific Publications; Science of Science