Scholarly Publications Quotes

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

The Deep Web contains shockingly valuable information. Can you imagine how cancer research would blossom if every researcher had instant access to every research paper done by every single university and research lab in the world?

I started a crowdfunding campaign on Sci-Hub to buy additional drives, and soon had my own copy of the database collected by LibGen, around 21 million papers.

One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.

I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

No two historians offer precisely the same reading of an historical event; if we did, far fewer articles and books would be published.

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount of knowledge; you can expect that there is this common background.

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.