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1) Probably not. People want to produce papers more than people want to consume papers. 2) Also probably not. Because most papers aren't read widely. The folks
by Fomite 9y ago
1) Probably not. People want to produce papers more than people want to consume papers.
2) Also probably not. Because most papers aren't read widely. The folks I know who have things that generate a small drip of royalties (usually licenses from patents) treat it as a nice little bit of fun-money, but it's nowhere near enough to either fund a lab or really change the calculus of "Is this job worth doing" from a monetary perspective.
Especially when compared to "Fuck it, I'll go work for industry."
- jobigoud 9y agoBased on bibliographic notes alone we can say that for each produced paper, a lot more are consumed.
- gus_massa 9y agoMost of the references were also in the last paper of the authors, and will almost surreally be in the next paper. (And there are also self citations ...) I'd probably divide the number of citation in math by 3 and in physics by 5 to discount repetitions.