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> 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 increa
by 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".