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I've read plenty of lengthy and long-winded papers from the 80's and earlier. Also it's not typeset, so it's taking up a lot more room than it appears to.
by Fomite 5y ago
I've read plenty of lengthy and long-winded papers from the 80's and earlier. Also it's not typeset, so it's taking up a lot more room than it appears to.
- paulpauper 5y agothey have indeed gotten longer as I suspected https://jeffbloem.com/2018/07/27/are-economics-papers-too-long/ https://jeffbloem.com/2018/07/27/are-economics-papers-too-lo... I duno why the original comment was down-voted so much. shorter papers are quicker to read and faster to compose. If shorter papers were good enough 30 years go, why not now?
- wyager 5y ago> If shorter papers were good enough 30 years go, why not now? Society can only support so many high-status cathedral positions, but the competition has increased significantly.
- Fomite 5y agoYet people also rant about publish-or-perish resulting in minimum publishable unit churning. Maybe the answer is some researchers just wrote a paper, non-typeset spacing is pretty wasteful, and Word does a bad job at tables, rather than some deep rooted societal crisis in "high-status cathedral positions".
- sergiomattei 5y agoI downvoted because it’s such a shallow dismissal of the author(s) work. There was zero substance, just a petty complaint over the length of the paper.