Publish or perish Dominika Lyzwa Natalia Revelo Nuncira

Publish or perish? Dominika Lyzwa Natalia Revelo Nuncira Tamara Vázquez Schröder Andreea Scacioc

What does it mean to publish? idea work write accepted write paper §idea how to ? work § work…work submit paper (re-) submit original, well-defined §§ overcome writing § where ? question barrier § minor and major changes concretly outlined §§ work on detail : figures, by reviewer proposed pathway requested § obstacles / impasses missing information, etc. . / frustration correspondence with obtain means of§journal §§ specifications editor / reviewer (experimental/ takes time ! § technical/ check by more computational) experienced scientist 22 -Nov-20 Dominika Lyzwa | Natalia Revelo Nuncira | Tamara Vázquez Schröder | Andreea Scacioc 2

Do you really perish? § § § do you really perish when you don’t publish? how about publishing and perishing? pressure of publishing can lead to: low quality publications repetitions mistrust among scientists arguments for authorship and credit § cheating § publication of very specific topics in high impact factor journals, which would fit better in specialized journals § § 22 -Nov-20 Dominika Lyzwa | Natalia Revelo Nuncira | Tamara Vázquez Schröder | Andreea Scacioc 3

How to publish efficiently? • What is better: big papers with many authors vs small papers with few authors? • Is it valuable to do additional tasks that lead to e. g. 10 th author? • Is it important to finish Ph. D with a published paper? • How do you select postdocs or hire people? 22 -Nov-20 Dominika Lyzwa | Natalia Revelo Nuncira | Tamara Vázquez Schröder | Andreea Scacioc 4

What is the impact of having publications? • What about impact factors? 1 Nature paper (IF ~36. 1) vs 3 PNAS papers (3*9. 8=29. 4) • Who decides what has impact? Journal editors? • High impact factor vs PLo. S ONE (IF 4. 4)? • Should science find a better system to measure a researcher’s capabilities? 22 -Nov-20 Dominika Lyzwa | Natalia Revelo Nuncira | Tamara Vázquez Schröder | Andreea Scacioc 5

What are the ingredients of a good publication? selling point? PI? writing style? idea? 22 -Nov-20 quantity of data? quality of data? Dominika Lyzwa | Natalia Revelo Nuncira | Tamara Vázquez Schröder | Andreea Scacioc 6

What does one need to do for a good publication? • Quality vs time spent/quantity of data? • How to sell a paper? • When do you know how many experiments/ figures are enough for one publication? • Isn’t it better to sometimes split up the article in two parts to make it easier to send the message across to the public? 22 -Nov-20 http: //www. smbc-comics. com Dominika Lyzwa | Natalia Revelo Nuncira | Tamara Vázquez Schröder | Andreea Scacioc 7

The importance of an idea • How does one get ideas that are interesting for the field, not only for me? • Should we choose the topics according to what is interesting? • As a junior researcher or junior group leader, should one choose the safe side vs. original & risky? 22 -Nov-20 Dominika Lyzwa | Natalia Revelo Nuncira | Tamara Vázquez Schröder | Andreea Scacioc 8

When did research become about publishing and perishing? • Aren’t we losing the perspective? • Galileo Galilei preferred to perish for his research: E pur si muove! 22 -Nov-20 http: //www. smbc-comics. com Dominika Lyzwa | Natalia Revelo Nuncira | Tamara Vázquez Schröder | Andreea Scacioc 9