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>Dr. Collie's personal opinion is that many of these papers are insubstantial; he often publishes a couple paragraphs proposing a thought experiment or cool ide
by z7 3y ago
>Dr. Collie's personal opinion is that many of these papers are insubstantial; he often publishes a couple paragraphs proposing a thought experiment or cool idea, more blog posts than research.
Then I wonder how he got 55542 citations? Why are scientists citing blog posts?
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CvQxOmwAAAAJ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CvQxOmwAAAAJ
- tptacek 3y ago(1) Nobody seems to dispute that Loeb has in the past done important work. (2) Very little of his recent work seems highly cited. (3) He has a team of grad students working on their own projects (from a video posted on this thread, amusingly, he cites an anecdote about his grad students expressing concern about the volume of superficial publishing he'd been doing and the implications on their own careers). (4) Some of his publishing seems strategic, an effort to do the minimum possible work, assisted by his status to get things published, so that he can claim a place in the cite record for ideas that other scientists do the real work on (the video again has some examples). (5) Is 50,000+ citations that many? I have to scroll through at least 5 pages of astronomy/astrophysics professors to get down to that count on Scholar, and Loeb is late-career, high-status.