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Regardless of the quality of knowledge, people with better social and networking skills will become better known than those without.
by rusticpenn 6y ago
Regardless of the quality of knowledge, people with better social and networking skills will become better known than those without.
- TheTrotters 6y agoAmong the general public? Definitely. Social and networking skills also matter within your professional community but they are not a substitute for publishing in top journals/conferences.
- rusticpenn 6y agoPerhaps your experience is different. Having the right name as the first or last author helps a lot in peer review and publication. Even in “double blind” reviews, it’s easy to find the authors usually.
- angrais 6y agoSort of true, but not quite. You may infer that a paper is from a certain lab or that the first author may be someone specific as it builds on their work... But last author? Not as easy as supervisors/lab leads can change.
- rusticpenn 6y agoIts not the supervisors who become famous. Its the lead Professor of the lab. Usually in engineering papers/journals the first/last author is the lead professor of the lab, who does nothing more than get the funding for the project.