On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:00:27PM -0400, David Goodman wrote: > There is also a difference bewteen the various fields about how much work > justifies a separate publication. This is sometimes called the LPU, "Least > Publishable Unit."
Yes, when I went up for promotion, I had one paper which I thought was very good, so I argued that it was equivalent to 5-10 LPUs. I'm only half joking about this. As I pointed out before, promotion is the main sustainer of the otherwise obselete journal system in many areas of physics and some areas of math. -- /\ Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis) / \ \ / Visit the Math ArXiv Front at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ \/ * All the math that's fit to e-print *
