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"Invest in projects, not papers." This is excellent advice, and in my experience does not represent the intuition that many young (and not so young) researcher
by tony_cannistra 2y ago
"Invest in projects, not papers."
This is excellent advice, and in my experience does not represent the intuition that many young (and not so young) researchers begin with.
Papers come from projects and, if you care, good projects can yield many good papers!
- juujian 2y agoIdk, nothing wrong with going for a low-hanging fruit and doing a one-off sometimes. So many academics fail to get stuff over the finish line. Not the right advice for everybody.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoInteresting. This is a common problem in academia?
- juujian 2y agoDepends on the person. Not unheard of to see people with 10+ working papers that realistically will never see the light of day. Each of those are months of work.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoI can see that I guess. Easier to start a new one than do the annoying parts to finish one.
- stavros 2y agoYeah, but it's not saying "don't do papers", it's saying your long-term investment should be projects.
- tony_cannistra 2y agonothing wrong except that it might be a distraction, which sometimes is good and sometimes would be better avoided.
- accurrent 2y agoThe problem is my supervisor only cares about paper count.
- voiper1 2y agoArticle's point seems to be that in the long term: paper count, citations, impact, motivation and fulfillment will all come from focusing on a project.
- accurrent 2y agoI tend to agree but there are way too many paper mills out there and Ive been stuck in one. The gamification of google scholar is real
- space_oddity 2y agoFocusing on quantity over quality is nearly always a bad idea