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

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.