Papers per Author

This table shows the distribution of the number of papers for the 401,445 authors in the Mathematical Reviews database as of 2004. For example, 32293 different mathematicians have exactly 3 papers. The mean is 7.2096 and the standard deviation is 18.0251.

number of papers number of mathematicians

1 169662 42.3%

2 58328 14.5%

3 32293 8.0%

4 21532 5.4%

5 15624 3.9%

6 11702 2.9%

7 9066 2.3%

8 7595 1.9%

9 6381 1.6%

10 5488 1.4%

11 4613 1.1%

12 4115 1.0%

13 3555 0.9%

14 3255 0.8%

15 2927 0.7%

16 2584 0.6%

17 2330 0.6%

18 2216 0.6%

19 2038 0.5%

20 1845 0.5%

21 1712 0.4%

22 1563 0.4%

23 1540 0.4%

24 1393 0.3%

25 1334 0.3%

26 1247 0.3%

27 1131 0.3%

28 1007 0.3%

29 1067 0.3%

30 962 0.2%

31 859 0.2%

32 873 0.2%

33 831 0.2%

34 771 0.2%

35 763 0.2%

36 642 0.2%

37 657 0.2%

38 652 0.2%

39 598 0.1%

40 564 0.1%

41 528 0.1%

42 508 0.1%

43 467 0.1%

44 478 0.1%

45 473 0.1%

46 453 0.1%

47 431 0.1%

48 373 0.1%

49 399 0.1%

50 381 0.1%

51 338 0.1%

52 315 0.1%

53 303 0.1%

54 344 0.1%

55 258 0.1%

56 301 0.1%

57 271 0.1%

58 235 0.1%

59 222 0.1%

60 243 0.1%

61 195 0.0%

62 231 0.1%

63 197 0.0%

64 221 0.1%

65 199 0.0%

66 158 0.0%

67 185 0.0%

68 185 0.0%

69 163 0.0%

70 144 0.0%

71 163 0.0%

72 135 0.0%

73 138 0.0%

74 140 0.0%

75 127 0.0%

76 121 0.0%

77 122 0.0%

78 105 0.0%

79 122 0.0%

80 91 0.0%

81 122 0.0%

82 85 0.0%

83 97 0.0%

84 87 0.0%

85 86 0.0%

86 93 0.0%

87 82 0.0%

88 88 0.0%

89 95 0.0%

90 64 0.0%

91 60 0.0%

92 80 0.0%

93 57 0.0%

94 66 0.0%

95 64 0.0%

96 58 0.0%

97 65 0.0%

98 54 0.0%

99 60 0.0%

100 59 0.0%

101 51 0.0%

102 64 0.0%

103 59 0.0%

104 49 0.0%

105 50 0.0%

106 33 0.0%

107 44 0.0%

108 49 0.0%

109 46 0.0%

110 49 0.0%

111 39 0.0%

112 37 0.0%

113 30 0.0%

114 37 0.0%

115 36 0.0%

116 35 0.0%

117 33 0.0%

118 36 0.0%

119 35 0.0%

120 37 0.0%

121 26 0.0%

122 33 0.0%

123 27 0.0%

124 34 0.0%

125 28 0.0%

126 28 0.0%

127 31 0.0%

128 23 0.0%

129 25 0.0%

130 14 0.0%

131 23 0.0%

132 16 0.0%

133 25 0.0%

134 24 0.0%

135 21 0.0%

136 20 0.0%

137 20 0.0%

138 15 0.0%

139 23 0.0%

140 24 0.0%

141 19 0.0%

142 15 0.0%

143 22 0.0%

144 21 0.0%

145 22 0.0%

146 11 0.0%

147 16 0.0%

148 14 0.0%

149 17 0.0%

150 13 0.0%

151 13 0.0%

152 20 0.0%

153 7 0.0%

154 14 0.0%

155 13 0.0%

156 10 0.0%

157 10 0.0%

158 12 0.0%

159 16 0.0%

160 9 0.0%

161 12 0.0%

162 11 0.0%

163 9 0.0%

164 12 0.0%

165 5 0.0%

166 7 0.0%

167 7 0.0%

168 7 0.0%

169 5 0.0%

170 13 0.0%

171 8 0.0%

172 12 0.0%

173 4 0.0%

174 12 0.0%

175 7 0.0%

176 8 0.0%

177 12 0.0%

178 4 0.0%

179 7 0.0%

180 8 0.0%

181 3 0.0%

182 2 0.0%

183 7 0.0%

184 6 0.0%

185 8 0.0%

186 11 0.0%

187 6 0.0%

188 7 0.0%

189 2 0.0%

190 3 0.0%

191 5 0.0%

192 3 0.0%

193 7 0.0%

194 2 0.0%

195 4 0.0%

196 5 0.0%

197 7 0.0%

198 2 0.0%

199 6 0.0%

200 5 0.0%

201-250 132 0.0%

251-300 61 0.0%

301-400 32 0.0%

401-500 14 0.0%

501-600 5 0.0%

601-700 3 0.0%

701-1401 4 0.0%

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