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IF the authors have a history of poor work, or no history at all, or a bunch of stuff that has been discredited, then the likelihood that they have solved a big
by ted_dunning 9y ago
IF the authors have a history of poor work, or no history at all, or a bunch of stuff that has been discredited, then the likelihood that they have solved a big problem declines.
People who do massively important work typically telegraph quality by doing earlier good work. That isn't always true, but it is commonly true.
- taneq 9y agoYou could say that estimating a paper's worth by the quality of the authors' previous papers is an approximate solution to the NP-hard "paper quality assessment" problem, which offers an exponential speed-up. :P