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Publish or perish?
Dominika Lyzwa
Natalia Revelo Nuncira
Tamara Vázquez Schröder
Andreea Scacioc
What does it mean to publish?
idea
work
write
accepted
write
paper
idea
how to ?
work
work…work…work
submit
paper
(re-) submit
original, well-defined
overcome
writing
where ?
question
barrier
minor and major changes
concretly
outlined
work
on detail
: figures,
by reviewer
proposed
pathway requested
obstacles / impasses missing
information,
etc..
/ frustration
correspondence with
obtain means ofjournal
specifications
editor / reviewer
(experimental/
takes time !
technical/
check by more
computational)
experienced scientist
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Do you really perish?
do you really perish when you
don’t publish?
how about publishing and
perishing?
pressure of publishing can lead
to:
low quality publications
repetitions
mistrust among scientists
arguments for authorship and
credit
cheating
publication of very specific
topics in high impact factor
journals, which would fit better
in specialized journals
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How to publish efficiently?
• What is better: big
papers with many
authors vs small papers
with few authors?
• Is it valuable to do
additional tasks that
lead to e. g. 10th author?
• Is it important to finish
PhD with a published
paper?
• How do you select
postdocs or hire people?
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What is the impact of having
publications?
• What about impact
factors?
1 Nature paper (IF ~36.1) vs
3 PNAS papers (3*9.8=29.4)
• Who decides what has
impact? Journal
editors?
• High impact factor vs
PLoS ONE (IF 4.4)?
• Should science find a
better system to
measure a researcher’s
capabilities?
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What are the ingredients of a good
publication?
selling
point?
PI?
writing style?
idea?
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quantity
of data?
quality
of data?
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What does one need to do for a
good publication?
• Quality vs time
spent/quantity of data?
• How to sell a paper?
• When do you know how
many experiments/
figures are enough for
one publication?
• Isn’t it better to
sometimes split up the
article in two parts to
make it easier to send
the message across to
the public?
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The importance of an idea
• How does one get ideas
that are interesting
for the field, not only
for me?
• Should we choose the
topics according to
what is interesting?
• As a junior researcher
or junior group leader,
should one choose the
safe side vs. original &
risky?
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When did research become about
publishing and perishing?
• Aren’t we losing the
perspective?
• Galileo Galilei
preferred to perish
for his research: E
pur si muove!
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