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>>... single-author papers scream "crank" to me. Not necessary. Consider this: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=qc6CJjYAAAAJ&hl=ru&oi=sra https://schol

• hprotagonist 8y ago
  sorry, should’ve been more specific. single author papers in fields that require lab work—medicine, biotech, chemistry, etc... all scream crank. in fields that need infrastructure, collaboration is normal. you can be a perfectly fine mathematician publishing single author work more reasonably than, say, a cell biologist could.