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That would never happen, again because of incentives. Academics want to build their brand and publishing anonymously doesn't help with that.
by csee 5y ago
That would never happen, again because of incentives. Academics want to build their brand and publishing anonymously doesn't help with that.
- chestervonwinch 5y agoPresently, for sure. I was wondering in the hypothetical, too, though. Authors really just need to provably show that they have a strong influence/presence on the publication graph or something. Although, reducing a researcher's entire value to a single scalar index is probably fraught. Also, egos would never go for completely anonymous authorship system, I think.