People will always say more but quality is worth more in the long term, and churning out tons of papers can be self-defeating if no one reads them so spending time on #scicomm is worth it too.
But I’m curious what people’s numbers are actually like, so how about some polls....
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#epitwitter, if you’re a postdoc how many 1st author papers did you submit it the past 12 months?2 replies 7 retweets 3 likes -
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#epitwitter, if you’re a postdoc how many *non first author* papers did you submit it the past 12 months?1 reply 4 retweets 2 likes -
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#epitwitter, if you’re junior faculty (assistant prof; <=5 years in faculty role) how many 1st author papers did you submit it the past 12 months?3 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
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#epitwitter, if you’re mid-career faculty (associate prof; ~6-12 years in faculty role) how many 1st author papers did you submit it the past 12 months?1 reply 2 retweets 0 likes -
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#epitwitter, if you’re senior faculty (full prof; >12 years in faculty role) how many 1st author papers did you submit it the past 12 months?2 replies 2 retweets 1 like -
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Last poll
#epitwitter, if you’re faculty (ie not a student or post-doc, or equivalent) how many **fold** more *non-first author* papers than first author papers did you submit in the last 12 months?3 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
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Another set of polls for
#epitwitter: If you work in government, how many 1st author papers did you submit last 12 months?3 replies 5 retweets 1 like -
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If you work in government, did you submit *any* papers in the past 12 months?
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Good to mention here - I did but it's very uncommon for gov employees. Not seen as important most of the time
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