Recently, there has been controversy over popular teachers being denied tenure based on other factors, including publication rates.
"The publication rate over all in all cases is about 20 percent," he said.
Lists books, papers and conferences about cold fusion; has graphs of publication rate over time.
It would not be surprising therefore if publication rates were found to vary between sub-fields.
The magazine has a monthly publication rate of roughly 50,000 issues.
Here the 18th-century British novel is represented by its publication rate: a single, undulating fever line.
He has been credited as the author of nearly 20 articles published since his death from cancer in 2005-a publication rate that exceeds most living scientists.
In the 1890s his publication rate increased to an average of 43 articles a year.
Yet there are two points to be made about publication rates.
Anyone who cares to look will find that the publication rates of researchers who move to private companies plunges.