David Goodman writes
> There is also a difference bewteen the various fields about how much
> workjustifies a separate publication. This is sometimes called the
> LPU, "Least Publishable Unit."
also called a publon. Physicists have researched that area (they
are always ahead of the rest of
At 18:17 14/02/01 -0800, you wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:04:45PM +, J Adrian Pickering wrote:
> Yes. You must file beforehand. You should also secure your data leading up
> to the filing also (in case of 'diligence' challenges). Self-archiving a
> preprint could be done provided it is e
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." I think the concept arose in respect to the biomedical
sciences, where some consider that it may be quite low.
Jim Till wrote:
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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 t
on 08 February 2001, Robert Welham wrote (in part, in a message forwarded
by Sally Morris):
>[rw] So they use a number of journals and, unconsciously perhaps, send a
>[rw] particular manuscript to the journal highest on their pecking order
>[rw] for which it has an evens chance of being accepted.
