A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication output among ecologists

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Publication output is the standard by which scientific productivity is
evaluated. Despite a plethora of papers on theissue of publication and
citation biases, no study has so far considered a possible effect of social
activities onpublication output. One of the most frequent social
activities in the world is drinking alcohol. In Europe, mostalcohol is
consumed as beer and, based on well known negative effects of
alcohol consumption on cognitiveperformance, I predicted negative
correlations between beer consumption and several measures of
scientificperformance. Using a survey from the Czech Republic,
that has the highest per capita beer consumption rate inthe world,
I show that increasing per capita beer consumption is associated
with lower numbers of papers,total citations, and citations per
paper (a surrogate measure of paper quality). In addition I found
the samepredicted trends in comparison of two separate geographic
areas within the Czech Republic that are also known todiffer in beer
consumption rates. These correlations are consistent with the
possibility that leisure time socialactivities might influence the
quality and quantity of scientific work and may be potential sources
of publication andcitation biases


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