Publish or perish

Byron Bird of Wisconsin has written wisely of the Plusses and Minuses of the enormous pressure to get grants and how it has changed the university from a community of scholars to a collection of (admittedly superb) technicians, but with minimal interest outside their own departments. His essay appeared as an article entitled Restore the right priorities. Chem. Eng. Prog. 92, 80-83 (19%). 

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things  

though the last lights off the black West went 

Hopkins, God s Grandeur. (1877). In Walford Davies (ed.). The Major Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. New York Dutton (1979). 

On the Dispersion of a Solute in a Fluid Flowing through a Tube 

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M. Spivak. A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Vol. III. Berkeley Publish or Perish, 1979. 

Have a clear idea of what you want to discover realize that your collaborating specialist is also in the publish-or-perish business. 

D. Rolfsen, Knots and Links, Publish or Perish, Wilmington, DE, 1976. 

Professors are expected to publish or perish (I prefer the more positive... 

Rolfsen, D. Ainofs and Links Publish or Perish Berkeley, 1976 second printing with corrections Publish or Perish Houston, 1990, Appendix C Table of knots and links,... 

Publish or perish is a proverb that academicians take seriously. If you do not publish your work for the rest of the community to evaluate, then you have no business in academia (and if you don t already have tenure, you will be banished). But the saying can be applied to theories as well. If a theory claims to be able to explain some phenomenon but does not generate even an attempt at an explanation, then it should be banished. Despite comparing sequences and mathematical modeling, molecular evolution has never addressed the question of how complex structures came to be. In effect, the theory of Darwinian molecular evolution has not published, and so it should perish. 

Rolfsen D (1976) Knots and links. Publish or Perish, Berkeley... 

In this chapter we have discussed some examples of incorrect structural proposals. Errors originated from (1) preoccupied and unusual assumptions about the possible structures, (2) inappropriate consideration of limitation of the available purification and analytical techniques, or (3) unreliable bioassay methods. In many cases, there was a human desire to reach a good result as soon as possible. In other words, there was pressure related to the well-known phrase, publish or perish. ... 

Lawson, H. B. 1980, Lectures on Minimal Submanifolds. Vol. 1, Publish or Perish, Inc., Berkeley, California. 

Hamad described a change in the scientist s mantra, Publish or perish. If research is not published, it might as well be left undone, Hamad said. Research is a public collaboration, an interactive endeavor, which is why it grows and sometimes turns into benefits and applications. Yet the mantra of the scientist today is changing. It is no longer only publish or perish, but incrementally more, Hamad said. It is making research openly accessible to every would-be user on the planet who has access to the Internet. 

The third quarter of the 18th century is dominated by Joseph Black (1728-99) who was a professor of medicine and chemistry first at Glasgow and from 1764 in Edinburgh. He was an excellent teacher, but published little during his career. (The edict - aphorism - of modern academia publish or perish had not, I guess, appeared yet ). What we know is based on notes from his lectures. 

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