Very true of applied research papers in general. Folks who've only either worked in academia, or in industry, but not both often don't appreciate the real dista

Very true of applied research papers in general. Folks who've only either worked in academia, or in industry, but not both often don't appreciate the real distance between a journal publication and a corresponding practical application/implementation. A "hot" paper that is wrong but intriguing can sometimes trigger a flurry of derivative works, and unless someone tries to implement it in the real world (and deal with the constraints of systems as found, not as imagined), suddenly it ends up spawning an entire new field that works in theory but not in practice. The incentives of academia and industry are simply different. Exceptions exist however, like journal papers that describe products/algorithms/technology that already exist in the real-world, like FFTW [1] or IPOPT [2]. In such cases, the publication exists merely as a form of technical documentation that other academics can easily cite. Reality is a really good arbiter of how solid an idea is. [1] http://www.fftw.org/pldi99.pdf http://www.fftw.org/pldi99.pdf [2] https://github.com/coin-or/Ipopt https://github.com/coin-or/Ipopt