Investigating the quantity–quality relationship in scientific creativity: an empirical examination of expected residual variance and the tilted funnel hypothesis
Abstract
Among scientists who study scientific production, the relationship between the quantity of a scientist’s production and the quality of their work has long been a topic of empirical research and theoretical debate. One principal theoretical perspective on the quantity–quality relationship has been the equal odds baseline, which posits that a scientist’s number of high-quality products increases linearly with their total number of products, and...
Paper Details
Title
Investigating the quantity–quality relationship in scientific creativity: an empirical examination of expected residual variance and the tilted funnel hypothesis
Published Date
Jun 25, 2020
Journal
Volume
124
Issue
3
Pages
2497 - 2518
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