[HN Gopher] Einstein's Google Scholar Profile
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       Einstein's Google Scholar Profile
        
       Author : sam-2727
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-09-29 20:39 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (scholar.google.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (scholar.google.com)
        
       | nextos wrote:
       | This is not really his actual profile as there are many
       | republished articles, compendiums and books as well as essays and
       | letters.
       | 
       | Einstein had few real publications, which I think is _good_. In
       | fact, his CV is often shown as an example of what a top notch
       | academic CV should look like. A few selected papers on core
       | ideas, developed throughout a lifetime. Instead, many academics
       | these days publish 500 or 600 articles during their career. That
       | means they are just stamping their names onto one more than one
       | paper per month, which is totally absurd.
       | 
       | Sadly, citations and paper counts have ceased to be useful
       | metrics. Historically, productive institutions (Bell Labs, LMB
       | Cambridge, CSHL, etc) did not measure performance with these, as
       | they are useless. Now, on the other hand, things are quite
       | different...
        
         | kevinventullo wrote:
         | As a former academic in pure math, I was once given the advice
         | that university hiring/promo committees care about two things
         | with respect to publishing:
         | 
         | 1. The most prestigious journal you've published in. 2. The
         | number of publications.
         | 
         | Churning out mediocre papers and writing grant proposals seemed
         | awful to me, so I left for the tech industry.
        
       | lucb1e wrote:
       | What does it mean when a 'cited by X' is crossed out? I tried
       | clicking it but it isn't explained.
        
         | Donald wrote:
         | > Why is the "Cited by" count for one of my articles crossed
         | out?
         | 
         | > Google Scholar considers this article the same as another
         | article in your profile. We display the "Cited by" count next
         | to both of the duplicates, but we only count them once in your
         | citation metrics.
         | 
         | > We recommend that you merge the duplicates - select both
         | articles and click the "Merge" button.
        
         | antegamisou wrote:
         | Duplicate entries.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | codeulike wrote:
       | _" no verified email"_
       | 
       | No shit, Einstein!
        
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