An exploration of collaborative scientific production at MIT through spatial organization and institutional affiliation
Fig 3
Patent and paper output per department per year.
A) Paper output remains fairly constant at the department level, and as a trend across all departments. B) Conversely, some departments exhibit a strong increase in patenting while others do not–there is a notable increase in the disparity of output over the course of the decade (excepting a nearly universal dip in 2008). Here EECS, MechE, ChemE, Chem, DMSE and MAS stand for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Dept of Material Science and Engineering and Mathematics respectively.