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I think it's because they are older and that led to less of the modern publication pressures. You didn't need to publish if you didn't have something interesti
by akvadrako 2y ago
I think it's because they are older and that led to less of the modern publication pressures.
You didn't need to publish if you didn't have something interesting to say and you could just make your point, without worrying about drowning in a sea of mediocrity.
- kragen 2y agoi thought about that, and certainly i have read a lot of terribly written papers (twps) in recent years, but i think this is partly survival bias; there were lots of twps in the older literature (ol) too, but they don't get cited, so you have to do things like find an entire ol journal issue (maybe one containing a single well-known paper) to read through and find twps. but the well-written papers from the ol seem to be much, much better written than the current well-written papers. i think something about the current publishing pipeline acts as a filter against good writing, something that didn't use to be there