TIL The proportion of the scientific workforce that maintains a continuous uninterrupted stream of publications every year over many years is very limited (<1%), but it accounts for the lion’s share of researchers with high citation impact (87.1%). User youyour, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 03 Nov 2015
Scientists who publish at least once every year for a long time are far more successful User sinysee, in the новости российской науки/news and discussions of Russian Science subreddit, 03 Jan 2015
Less than 1% of publishing scientists have at least one publication per year; they account for 42% of all papers, and 87% of papers with > 1000 citations User Epistaxis, in the A hangout for lab nerds! subreddit, 17 Jul 2014
PLOS ONE: Estimates of the Continuously Publishing Core in the Scientific Workforce User jmdugan, in the Open Science subreddit, 16 Jul 2014
The most cited scientists are the 1% who publish every year [open access] User Scitr, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 13 Jul 2014