{"id":55,"date":"2016-08-15T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T20:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=55"},"modified":"2023-05-10T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:35:15","slug":"publish-or-perish-the-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2016\/08\/15\/publish-or-perish-the-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish or perish the thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0149504\">a recent article<\/a>, Daniele Fanelli and Vincent Larivi\u00e8re test the common claim that contemporary academics are publishing more papers than scientists used to publish. They conclude, contra the myth, that &#8220;contemporary science is not suffering from a salami-slicing of papers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is compatible with the observation that journals receive more submissions than they used to, because the overall number of scientists has increased. Moreover, as they note, scientists in non-anglophone countries may be feeling more pressure to publish in anglophone journals.<\/p>\n<p>It is also compatible with the observation that scientists&#8217; CVs list more papers than CVs of earlier times, because coauthoring is more common and the number of coauthors per paper has increased. Part of Fanelli and Larivi\u00e8re&#8217;s analysis is to abstract from this effect.<\/p>\n<p>Because of their methodology, their results don&#8217;t directly address philosophy. It is still plausible that philosophers are now pushed to publish more than philosophers back in the day, especially since there has been a shift from expecting a book for tenure to expecting some congerie of papers. I also wonder whether the growth of co-authorship in philosophy isn&#8217;t partly an adaptation to that demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article, Daniele Fanelli and Vincent Larivi\u00e8re test the common claim that contemporary academics are publishing more papers than scientists used to publish. They conclude, contra the myth, that &#8220;contemporary science is not suffering from a salami-slicing of papers.&#8221; This is compatible with the observation that journals receive more submissions than they used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2016\/08\/15\/publish-or-perish-the-thought\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Publish or perish the thought&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-the-profession"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-T","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}