"I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too"
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I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too
If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.Barnett, Adrian
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in reply to Adam H. Sparks • • •long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Jan van der Laan
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Unknown parent • • •@dianawastaken @dodecadron @rspfau and then there is Peter Higgs, with less than ten papers and a Nobel.
It's a bit strange to talk about, because so many scientists work their butt off to publish maybe few papers a year. But hyper-publication in a relatively small number of labs skews standards and expectations for everyone else. And, depending on the scale, it compromises the integrity of the whole peer review process, without necessarily producing any meaningful products.
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in reply to Jan van der Laan • • •I genuinely gagged when I read that. Silly me, thinking I could pursue research without publishing over 20 articles per year on the regular