At my institution researchers are evaluated, in part, by the number of papers they produce. So they look at someone like me and conclude I'm not very productive. But it's a silly metric, and one made all the more so by the revelation in a Nature article (more) that some scientists publish a paper every five days. No wonder the authors are finding that there's less disruption and innovation in these works! "The growth in publishing and patenting may lead scientists and inventors to focus on narrower slices of previous work," write the authors. "We are at crossroads," says Olga Ioannou in this post. "We are at that awkward moment in time that we've lost sight of the others. So, how do we move forward? The paper's authors ask for broader research and more time."
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