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> You can be a scientist without publishing in top journals. But you can't be a scientist without obtaining grant money. And publishing - particularly in top j
by nordsieck 4y ago
> You can be a scientist without publishing in top journals.
But you can't be a scientist without obtaining grant money. And publishing - particularly in top journals - is the major way to accomplish that.
- endisneigh 4y agoYou can be a scientist without grant money, though. Most “scientists” are not published in these so called top journals.
- dncjvhvusy 4y agoLast I checked a scientist can be anyone that does research.
- 8bitsrule 4y agoResearch can be done well or poorly. Good research with no outlet is not worth a whole lot more. Fine example: Newton needed an angel to get Principia Mathematica published. It was edited, paid-for and seen through press by Edmond Halley. (Halley was not rich. He was lucky that it sold.) https://web.archive.org/web/20120512123330/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Halley.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120512123330/http://www-groups...
- asdff 4y agoPeople in academia know the game with the top impact factor journals, and they understand that there is plenty of great science that occurs outside of those journals.