Exploring scientists’ working timetable: Do scientists often work overtime?

摘要

A novel method is proposed to monitor and record scientists' workingtimetable. We record the downloads information of scientific papers real-timelyfrom Springer round the clock, and try to explore scientists' working habits.As our observation demonstrates, many scientists are still engaged in theirresearch after working hours every day. Many of them work far into the night,even till next morning. In addition, research work also intrudes into theirweekends. Different working time patterns are revealed. In the US, overnightwork is more prevalent among scientists, while Chinese scientists mostly havebusy weekends with their scientific research.