And even if researchers wanted to report everything, “high impact journals” often reward extreme brevity and don’t allow more than 2000-2500 words to summarize years of research.
Might be interesting to compare with twitter.
Argyle: What am I supposed to believe about “not reading papers” now? You haven’t convinced me that it’s actually better than reading a paper carefully.
Belka: That was never my aim, I also would prefer reading them carefully. But that’s not really an option. My point is just that “not reading papers” is not as bad as it sounds
Read the important papers carefully. If it’s obviously not relevant to what you’re working on and you don’t care, then don’t read it, obviously. “Not reading papers” is obviously a strategy for figuring out what paper you should read next. If you know that already, then just read the paper.
That would be a feat even for someone like Nicolas Bourbaki.
Might be interesting to compare with twitter.
Read the important papers carefully. If it’s obviously not relevant to what you’re working on and you don’t care, then don’t read it, obviously. “Not reading papers” is obviously a strategy for figuring out what paper you should read next. If you know that already, then just read the paper.