On publication rates in earthquake engineering

It is shown that publication rates of earthquake engineering professors are essentially the same as the average publication rates of a sample of 443 science (59%) and engineering (41%) professors in the United States. This work was motivated by an observation that, in 2004, of 212 of the 'world's most cited and influential researchers' in the category of engineering, HighlyCited.com included no earthquake engineering faculty. Our results suggest that this outcome is not caused by the publication rates in earthquake engineering.