Time spent reading and amount of reading
Scientists continue to read many journal articles and spend many hours per year doing so. This has remained true over four decades and the number of readings appears to be increasing (see Figure 1). The number of readings per scientist across all work fields averaged approximately 100 articles per year until the mid-1990s. In the last half of the 1990s, this average increased to approximately 120 articles per year and, in our surveys conducted in the early 2000s, it has gone up to an average of 130 per year across all workfields. The average time spent reading has fluctuated and does not appear to be increasing as much as the number of readings. That means that scientists, on average, are doing quite a bit more reading without spending a lot more time (see Figure 2). (Some of the variation may be due to differences in population surveyed.) The average number of article readings and the time spent reading per article vary among disciplines and workplace. Chemists read many more journal articles than do engineers, for example. In our recent studies we found that chemists at ORNL read an average of 276 articles per year, physicists an average of 204 articles per year, and engineers an average of 72. Academic scientists tend to read more than do scientists in other organizations such as government laboratories and companies, and university medical faculty tend to read the most – 322 article readings per year for UT medical faculty in 2001. The medical faculty spend an average of only about 20 minutes per article, however, so their total time reading is less than chemists (118 hours per year for medical faculty vs. 198 hours per year for chemists) (see Table 1).
เวลาที่ใช้อ่านและอ่านจำนวนScientists continue to read many journal articles and spend many hours per year doing so. This has remained true over four decades and the number of readings appears to be increasing (see Figure 1). The number of readings per scientist across all work fields averaged approximately 100 articles per year until the mid-1990s. In the last half of the 1990s, this average increased to approximately 120 articles per year and, in our surveys conducted in the early 2000s, it has gone up to an average of 130 per year across all workfields. The average time spent reading has fluctuated and does not appear to be increasing as much as the number of readings. That means that scientists, on average, are doing quite a bit more reading without spending a lot more time (see Figure 2). (Some of the variation may be due to differences in population surveyed.) The average number of article readings and the time spent reading per article vary among disciplines and workplace. Chemists read many more journal articles than do engineers, for example. In our recent studies we found that chemists at ORNL read an average of 276 articles per year, physicists an average of 204 articles per year, and engineers an average of 72. Academic scientists tend to read more than do scientists in other organizations such as government laboratories and companies, and university medical faculty tend to read the most – 322 article readings per year for UT medical faculty in 2001. The medical faculty spend an average of only about 20 minutes per article, however, so their total time reading is less than chemists (118 hours per year for medical faculty vs. 198 hours per year for chemists) (see Table 1).
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