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What Senior Scholars Quietly Think About Massive Publication Counts
If you’re in the research game, you eventually have this weird shift.
You start discounting highly published people.
Not because you’re bitter. Not because you’re jealous. But because you understand how much work is actually involved. And when you see a massive publication count, you start thinking: there are other effects going on behind the scenes that I can’t observe.
If you talk to the elite of the elite researchers, they often know this. They’re suspect of people that publish too much.
And here’s the part that sounds strange to outsiders: some people that publish less actually get more…
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