Resident research and publishing

[LADoc00]

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Hmmm......

My senseless ramblings are the work of true genius!!
Muhahahahahahaahaha..okay back to my computer games.

 

[quant]

My senseless ramblings are the work of true genius!!

Well unfortunately I agree with all of what you said LaDoc. Question is how does one hedge against the coming calamity?

 

[1Path]

Well unfortunately I agree with all of what you said LaDoc. Question is how does one hedge against the coming calamity?

Marry well! Opps maybe that doesn't work very well when the dude is the doc!

 

[l&usibari]

DOOM!

DOOM!

DOOM!

 

[DropkickMurphy]

My senseless ramblings are the work of true genius!!
Muhahahahahahaahaha....

What's that expression? Oh right: The line between actually very brilliant and actually very delusional is actually very thin. 😉

 

[docbiohazard]

Mindy, Bierstiefel, Dr. Remick,

Thanks for the relevant info and discussion of my question. Much food for thought. If I have any further discussion, questions, or thoughts, I'll revive one of the aforementioned threads.

BH

 

[camtber]

I just wanted to add that even publlishing results which appear to be nothing but "drivel" at the time of publication may later prove to be useful information and reference for a paper at a later date. Information builds on information.

 

[pathomatic]

I just wanted to add that even publlishing results which appear to be nothing but "drivel" at the time of publication may later prove to be useful information and reference for a paper at a later date. Information builds on information.

very true

 

[docbiohazard]

I just wanted to add that even publlishing results which appear to be nothing but "drivel" at the time of publication may later prove to be useful information and reference for a paper at a later date. Information builds on information.

Agreed, although it is always best at the start of an experiment to try to design it such that you'll have something publishable at the end regardless of your findings.

BH

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I just wanted to add that even publlishing results which appear to be nothing but "drivel" at the time of publication may later prove to be useful information and reference for a paper at a later date. Information builds on information.

Although this comment seems simple, my PhD boss told me the same thing. Ultimately, history will judge how valuable one's publications are in a certain field. This is very hard to judge on a prospective basis and the validity of most published conclusions are verified retrospectively. It certainly does not hurt to publish any kind of results. If your paper is cited on multiple occasions, it is likely that people value your scientific method and your conclusions. If your paper is ignored and not cited, that could be because of (a) politics or (b) your study is crap.

 

[docbiohazard]

If your paper is ignored and not cited, that could be because of (a) politics or (b) your study is crap.

Or c) you are doing work out on the fringe of a field which people don't find particularly interesting or useful, or d) you have published in a journal which is small and not readily available in most academic libraries or their online subscriptions (like, say, the Latvian Journal of Applied Molecular Entomology). 🙂

BH

 

[sleeping beauty]

citation may not be a very good indicator of the quality of a paper. the mean citation of my JBC papers is higher than that of Science/Nature/Cell papers. but i do not think my papers are as good as any paper from these journals.