> One perceived bad paper could be career ending. I don't think this is true. Do you have any data or even any examples to back this up? Early career research

> One perceived bad paper could be career ending. I don't think this is true. Do you have any data or even any examples to back this up? Early career researchers aren't well known, so if they publish a bad paper who cares? No one knows who they are anyways and likely won't remember for their next paper. Well established researchers, are well, well established... And can weather these papers by the bulk of the rest of their work. I don't think i ever judge the quality of a paper by the quality of the other papers the authors have written. I rarely even look to see what other papers that author has written.