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How about understanding and valuing a publication as a letter to the research community about something the authors think is interesting and needs further consi
by bonoboTP 7y ago
How about understanding and valuing a publication as a letter to the research community about something the authors think is interesting and needs further consideration. The start of a scientific debate. A "hey what do you other research groups around the world think about this?" If nobody thinks anything and it doesn't gain traction or followup debate/research/consideration, then it failed its mission.
Not as "This research has now found X and is in a reputable journal, so this is the new state of science from now on".
The problem is, academics are pushed to writing more and more papers. There's no time to discuss back and forth too much about an already published paper, there are new papers to write! The goal of the project was to publish a paper, published=won, end of story, next project on.