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Long run paper trail

Thu, 2010-08-19 08:30 -- John Hawks

Gordon Watts writes an interesting story of tenure review and the productivity of a long-lasting experiment in particle physics: "200 Run 2 Papers from DZERO." Let's just say that the journal cuts off access to a university because a single researcher is printing papers for his tenure review! And this:

As far as DZERO’s ability to mark passing time, there are 18 people that have helped this experiment and didn’t live to see the 200’th paper.

(via Not Even Wrong)

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metascience
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