Comic #1580: 2009-08-31
Description
Here’s the transcription of the comic text:
Title: HOW SCIENCE PUBLISHING WORKS:
Panel 1: Character 1: This is the best paper we've ever written! It’ll be in any top tier journal easily.
Character 2: Wait. If we split the information into two papers, we can get published twice!
Panel 2: Character 3: Hold on… if we subdivide those two papers, we can get published four times!
Panel 3: Text: SOON…
Graph:
- Title: Career Advancement potential
- X-axis: Quantity of Papers
- Y-axis: Quality of Papers
Panel 4: Character 4: You know, this theory of paper division might have some mathematical novelties. I bet we could publish.
Panel 5: Character 5: Or if we split it… we could publish twice.
Panel 6: Text: ELSEWHERE…
Character 6: Any word on that new tumor treatment?
Character 7: Science doesn’t happen overnight!