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It is less about the quality of work, but that the source itself should have some form of ‘blame.’ Plagiarism is still a risk, and the main deterrence against i

It is less about the quality of work, but that the source itself should have some form of ‘blame.’ Plagiarism is still a risk, and the main deterrence against it is the reputation of the authors.

slavik81 2y ago
There are some rather important papers that were written under pseudonyms, e.g. Student (1908). "The Probable Error of a Mean"
- cafard 2y ago
  Well, that was the policy of his employer (Guinness).
- otoburb 2y ago
  And Nicolas Bourbaki's "Éléments de mathématique".[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki