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I worry that these will be citations (and publications) that "don't really count" in heavily career-impacting decisions. Just getting citations to appear won't
by kd0amg 10y ago
I worry that these will be citations (and publications) that "don't really count" in heavily career-impacting decisions. Just getting citations to appear won't make funding agencies, tenure committees, etc. value distillation itself -- they will definitely know the difference between a survey paper and a novel result.
- colah3 10y agoYep. That's why a big part of Distill, behind the scenes, is a campaign of talking to senior faculty, scientific funders, and leaders of industry research groups, to build consensus that this is important. I'm not sure how successful we'll be, but we're taking it seriously.