If you think your job is getting harder, you are correct. Themathematics literature is growing relentlessly, and becomingharder to figure out along the way. The vehicles for publishingare more varied than ever. Meanwhile, bibliometricsare tempting to administrators for their apparent objectivity,which then tempts researchers to respond accordingly.This is a look at these three issues, using informationcontained in the Mathematical Reviews Database (MRDB),which is what powers MathSciNet?. Mathematical Reviewshas been indexing and reviewing the research literature inmathematics since 1940. We have collected a considerableamount of information about this corpus over the years. Asof this writing, the database contains roughly 3.6 millionitems and profiles for over 900,000 authors.
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