Territorial disputes
Finding a suitable research subject is about the most difficult task in the life of a researcher. And professional scientists are confronted with this task continuously all through their career. You do...
View ArticleWill the reviewer of my grant proposal steal my ideas?
Writing grant proposals is a fact of live for every group leader. This writing can be quite time consuming. Your chance of success depends on a number of factors. The factor I want to discuss here is...
View ArticlePublishing a comment on a paper
Successful scientists are driven by curiosity and by ego. Lay people find it disappointing when told that egos of individual scientists play a crucial role in the progress of science. But the same...
View ArticleResearch cartels will abolish genuine science
Ever-increasing competition for unfairly limited funding is backfiring. Territorial allocations and research topic fixing is hurting the creativity of researchers and specially demotivating the younger...
View ArticleGetting scooped
Over the last 6 months I have been checking regularly the journals to see if anyone has published something in the direction of our research project. This morning, when I was just going online to...
View ArticleProductivity vs Creativity
I am at the last year of my PhD. I started working on a topic which was quite new in the sci community. I also published about 5 articles on that topic and 4 other articles in related topics. Sometimes...
View ArticleMissed references
As a scientist reading a substantial amount of papers I regularly read articles with inadequate referencing. Obviously some papers contain too many self-citations, however my main concern is about...
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