Posted by alexandra_k on November 12, 2018, at 11:35:18
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by alexandra_k on November 12, 2018, at 11:24:16
I mean...
Let's say you can write a paper in a year that is of publishable quality.
Then let's say you have three friends who are similarly positioned.
Then let's say you decide to work together such that you read / respond / edit up each other's work so you can claim to have 3 collaboratively authored papers.
That works to mutual benefit (for the benefit of everyones CV).
Added value: The quality is likely to be higher. It might also be the case that together, an additinal piece can be published that arises from the conflict / tension / differences in the authors perspectives / points of view.
I mean...
This is how you get 5 publications in a year, yes?
It's a... Uh... No brainer.
Only... People here really don't seem to have caught on. Somehow... It's become about preventing the people around you from publishing (if at all possible) so that you somehow look better for having done that, once, or something. Something like that.
Of course mostly the problem is that people don't do what they say they will do in anything approximating a timely fashion.
Then the problem becomes that if someone does something in a timely fashion everyone wants to turn on them / stone them to death because such things are not posssible / allowed.
Nobody is allowed to do anything.
Everyone must go at the pace of teh slowest and everyone must spend all the time there is placating the slowest.
Otherwise, they deserve to be murdered in their sleep.
My problem was my Mother did not drink while pregnant. She also never fed me chemical rubbish processed crap. I guess they hadn't got to our water supply and the like, too...
I'm sure they've learned better.
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