Data for the paper "How many is too many? On the relationship between research productivity and impact", forthcoming in PLOS One.

Power trendlines and R2 are were obtained using the Excel software Fig 3. Proportion of top 1% most cited papers, as a function of their number of papers published, for the cohort of researchers who have published their first paper between 2009 and 2013, by domain. Only classes of numbers of papers with 30 researchers or more are shown.

Power trendlines and R2 are used for natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences, while 2nd order polynomials are used for medical and life sciences, and law, arts and humanities. Fig 4. Proportion of top 1% most cited papers for all cohorts of researchers, by domain.

A) As a function of career length, B) As a function of their annual number of papers (rounded). Only groups with 30 researchers or more are shown.Appendix 1. Main descriptive values for scholars covered by the analysis