[討論] 喝的愈多 Paper愈少
今天紐約時報一篇很有趣的文章
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/18beer.html
For Scientists, a Beer Test Shows Results as a Litmus Test
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By CAROL KAESUK YOON
Published: March 18, 2008
Ever since there have been scientists, there have been those who are wildly
successful, publishing one well-received paper after another, and those who
are not. And since nearly the same time, there have been scholars arguing
over what makes the difference.
What is it that turns one scientist into more of a Darwin and another into
more of a dud?
After years of argument over the roles of factors like genius, sex and dumb
luck, a new study shows that something entirely unexpected and considerably
sudsier may be at play in determining the success or failure of scientists —
beer.
According to the study, published in February in Oikos, a highly respected
scientific journal, the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the
scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited by another
researcher, a measure of a paper’s quality and importance.
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簡單說
就是啤酒喝的多的人 統計上的論文發表量品質也較差(引用數少)較少
但是有沒有因果關係不曉得
看來菸酒生跟研究生之間還是有區別的
另附上原論文題目與摘要
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16551.x
Oikos
Volume 117 Issue 4 Page 484-487, April 2008
A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication
output among ecologists
Tomá Grim
Publication output is the standard by which scientific productivity is
evaluated. Despite a plethora of papers on the issue of publication and
citation biases, no study has so far considered a possible effect of social
activities on publication output. One of the most frequent social activities
in the world is drinking alcohol. In Europe, most alcohol is consumed as beer
and, based on well known negative effects of alcohol consumption on cognitive
performance, I predicted negative correlations between beer consumption and
several measures of scientific performance. Using a survey from the Czech
Republic, that has the highest per capita beer consumption rate in the world,
I show that increasing per capita beer consumption is associated with lower
numbers of papers, total citations, and citations per paper (a surrogate
measure of paper quality). In addition I found the same predicted trends in
comparison of two separate geographic areas within the Czech Republic that
are also known to differ in beer consumption rates. These correlations are
consistent with the possibility that leisure time social activities might
influence the quality and quantity of scientific work and may be potential
sources of publication and citation biases.
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