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How to tactfully "decommit" from projects?
As a young academic recently flown from the nest, I am starting to figure out my own research interests. I now feel like I have too many, though. During a postdoc where I struggled to fit in and ...
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Is publishing papers with many co-authors detrimental to one's academic career?
I’m looking at some friends’ works, at good labs, in good schools, but some of their publications have 10 co-authors – I even found one with 15 co-authors.
I’m sure the lab and its PI(s) are doing ...
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Early career advice for Jr. Researcher on selectivity of authorship credit for collaboration in areas outside one's specialization
I have a problem...Once folks learn my academic specialty within the medical sciences and of my strong background in statistics, they often want to form a collaborating - mostly they want me to ...
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How important is primary authorship in judging someone's research contributions?
I wanted to know how the research profile of a doctoral student or a post-doc is usually judged in academia. In the list of peer-reviewed conference or journal publications, how crucial is the ...
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