A grant application requires me to elaborate on typical output indicators in my field (pure mathematics). In particular, I want to explain that 3-4 articles during a PhD is a good amount for my field. But having that solely as a claim seams very weak. How would you justify this statement? Are there any resources to refer to for this?

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The AMS has issued a number of “culture statements” meant to explain the peculiarities of the field to outsiders. One of them deals with rates of publication. It does not address precisely the issue of the “typical number of publications during a Ph.D” (I would doubt that reliable statistics on are available beyond the informal personal impressions of senior mathematicians) but it does explain that mathematicians publish at rates much lower than some other fields. (Another statement is helpful if you need evidence that an alphabetical ordering of authors is the norm in pure maths.)

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