The phrase "average number of papers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statistics or data related to the quantity of papers produced, published, or submitted in a specific context, such as academic research or publications.
Example: "The average number of papers published by researchers in this field has increased over the past decade."
Alternatives: "mean quantity of papers" or "typical count of papers".
They present and study statistics such as average number of papers per author, average number of papers per edition of the symposium, average co-authors per paper, among others.
Finally, the average number of papers per author is 1.98 (with a standard deviation of 3.21), while the average number of authors per paper is 3.04 (with a standard deviation of 1.47).
The average number of papers per year is 22.47 (with a standard deviation of 4.86), and the average number of authors per year is 60.53 (with a standard deviation of 17.53).
Although average scientific impact per paper decreases linearly until about age 50, the average number of papers in highly cited journals and among highly cited papers rises continuously until retirement.
It shows the average number of papers per researcher in the top 10% of journals ordered by decreasing impact factor and the top 10% most cited papers, using first all professors (A,B) and then only active professors (C,D).
However, when only the set of active researchers is considered as the denominator (C,D), the average number of papers in the top 10% highest impact continues to rise steadily until at least 70, the oldest age for which we have at least 100 active professors in our database.
Information on most-cited papers, number of journals, number of papers, average number of citations per paper, and total citations in each scientific field are derived from the Essential Science Indicators module.
Moreover, the findings of a recent paper indicate that it is better in predicting researchers' future scientific achievement than other indicators (total citation count, average number of citations per paper, total paper count) [ 9].
Although it is common for clinical trials papers to have large author teams, the average number of authors across papers was high.
To rank the top 100 federally funded universities, ScienceWatch worked out the average number of times that papers at each institution were cited in another paper.
Along the same lines, Figure 7B shows that the average number of first-authored papers decreases steadily with age.
