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"I know several research scientists with several hundred publications to their names which these 'authors' have not even read." Now I am not completely familia
by chris11 17y ago
"I know several research scientists with several hundred publications to their names which these 'authors' have not even read."
Now I am not completely familiar with academia, so I was wondering if you could provide some context. Is is blatant plagiarism of other scientist's work? And if so, is this something that most scientists can reasonably expect to get away with if they tried. Or is it something where the scientist has some link to the work, such as heading a lab or working with the main author, but just has not done much work on the paper?
- nagrom 17y agoThe way it works is that one is a member of a collaboration. That collaboration publishes a paper, with 200 people on the author's list - technically, all the member of the collab. have been working at the experiment at some point. Of course, if an academic is a member of three or four of these collaborations, and each collab. publishes 10-20 papers a year, there's no way for the academic to fully understand the papers and do anything else on top of that...