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To supply a counter viewpoint here... The opposite is the "least publishable unit" which leads to loads and loads of almost-nothing results flooding the journal
by bennythomsson 2y ago
To supply a counter viewpoint here... The opposite is the "least publishable unit" which leads to loads and loads of almost-nothing results flooding the journals and other publication outlets. It would be hard to keep up with all that if there wasn't a reasonable threshold. If anything then I find that threshold too low currently, rather than too high. The "publish or perish" principle also pushes people that way.
- lupire 2y agoThat's much less of a problem than the fact that papers are such poor media for sharing knowledge. They are published too slowly to be immediately useful versus just a quick chat, and simultaneously written in too rushed a way to comprehensively educate people on progress in the field.
- ahartmetz 2y agoThe educational and editorial quality of papers from before 1980 or so beats just about anything published today. That is what publish or perish - impact factor - smallest publishable unit culture did.
- bennythomsson 2y ago> versus just a quick chat, Everybody is free to keep a blog for this kind of informal chat/brainstorming kind of communication. Paper publications should be well-written, structured, thought-through results that make it worthwhile for the reader to spend their time. Anything else belongs to a blog post.