1211.1140 (C. Attaccalite et al.)

Trends in condensed matter physics: is research going faster and faster?    [PDF]

C. Attaccalite, S. Barland

In this paper we study research trends in condensed matter physics. Trends are analyzed by means of the the number of publications in the different sub-fields as function of the years. We found that many research topics have a similar behavior with an initial fast growth and a next slower exponential decay. We derived a simple model to describe this behavior and built up some predictions for future trends.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1140