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Somewhat novel research is fine, just as long as it conforms to what is expected. Novel AND counter to the expectations of the field is much harder to publish.
by biomcgary 10y ago
Somewhat novel research is fine, just as long as it conforms to what is expected. Novel AND counter to the expectations of the field is much harder to publish.
- untilHellbanned 10y agosad but very true
- skosuri 10y agoCan you think of a low impact paper that later turned out to be too novel to get published in a high impact journal at the time? How often do you think this happens? I for one don't see this a lot. What I see more often are people that think there work is super novel, and either it's not, or they don't have enough evidence and don't know the field well enough to know that they are wrong.
- mathattack 10y agoIs this because journal editors like to see their own lines of research expanded on? (Incentive problem?) Or harder to referee novel papers? (Time and attention problem?)