The Problems With Scientific Publication

The scientific literature is growing at a phenomenal rate. It's been growing exponentially with doubling time of about eight years for the last hundred years or so. For a scientist, the simple problem is how do you keep on top of it? You know, there's just so much being published. How on earth can you keep a aware of even what's going on in your own field? And that's a really difficult problem. In the scientific papers, the output is the currency of scientific careers. The root that gets them promoted is the means for expressing their arguments. They're a very important part of what science is about. But it's tied into the reward process in a rather kind of strange

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