Give researchers a lifetime word limit
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Give researchers a lifetime word limit
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#2Yes.
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#3Yes.
Is your answer an example of the possible outcome of the proposal? Shorter papers with less content (but more frequently)?
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#4Please no. Papers are sufficiently terse, jargon-filled and hard to follow as it is
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#5Please no. Papers are sufficiently terse, jargon-filled and hard to follow as it is
Further, in some fields (biomedical) research takes so long, and top-tier journals are so selective, that a lot of work just never gets published. Slowing that process even further would wreak havoc on already way-too-long graduate careers. A really pernicious effect of some bosses who 'only publish top-tier-quality work' is many students get stuck with years-worth of negative results, and do not get to either move on or publish their work.
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#8This would be great because it would shake the foundations of the principal investigator model, which I think it's doing a lot of harm to research in Medicine and Biology.
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#9Restrict researchers to communicate using only the word "novel".
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#10Would math and/or source code count?