Because of the novelty of the topic, the search strategy included journal output but also other types of scientific publications, including conference papers (13), working papers (3), book chapters (3), project reports (1), white papers (1) and semi-scientific magazine articles (2).
In a study concerning the journal output from 2003, Mc Veigh (2004) [17] found that out of 747060 citable articles indexed in the ISI Web of Science 2,9% were in open access journals.
Despite the substantial decrease in time available for research, other key research inputs and overall journal article output per faculty have remained relatively stable over that same time period.
However, they are part of a researcher's journal publication output and overall productivity.
To produce individual rankings, Handelsblatt solely considers journal publication output and uses several journal rankings that classify journals according to their (perceived) quality.
*Clarification, 5 June, 8 a.m.:The headline has been revised to reflect that the journal's output, not submissions, have dropped.
Our expanded Editorial Advisory Board will assist us in maintaining the high quality of the journal's output our community has come to expect.
In the last years, Handelsblatt has published several rankings of business economists from German, Swiss and Austrian research institutions based on their journal publication output.
Handelsblatt has ranked more than 2,500 business economists according to their life's work (based on their total journal publication output) as well as according to their recent research performance (based on their journal publications within the last 5 years).
Recent NSF data show that science and engineering journal article output worldwide grew at an average annual rate of 2.3percentt between 1995 and 2005, but the US growth rate was much lower, at an annual 0.6percentt.
Mortality is a key indicator of the magnitude of the humanitarian situation and effectiveness of the humanitarian responses, and nearly 10% of the journal's output has been reports of mortality using retrospective surveys, surveillance methods and meta-analyses, including those from Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Iraq and Somali refugees in Kenya [ 39- 46].
