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"I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too"

nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

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Jan van der Laan
@dianawastaken @rspfau "I’ve decided to push back on the pressure to publish by making a rule for myself: I will no longer publish more than seven papers per year." LOL
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Frank Aylward

@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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@dodecadron @rspfau
I genuinely gagged when I read that. Silly me, thinking I could pursue research without publishing over 20 articles per year on the regular

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