  Do highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to
produce top cited papers? Or does the increased productivity in science only
result in a sea of irrelevant papers as a perverse effect of competition and
the increased use of indicators for research evaluation and accountability
focus? We use a Swedish author disambiguated data set consisting of 48,000
researchers and their WoS-publications during the period of 2008 2011 with
citations until 2014 to investigate the relation between productivity and
production of highly cited papers. As the analysis shows, quantity does make a
difference.
