Comments on: Publishing for Impact

By: regehr

regehr — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:38:52 +0000

Gasche, I have written one non-academic article, a number of years ago:

http://www.eetimes.com/design/embedded/4025013/Say-no-to-stack-overflow

My take-away message from the experience was that I’d be better off spending the time on blog entries, which is what I now do. Of course, something like Scientific American is at a different level — I have no idea if they’d be interested in the compiler bugs. But this is interesting, thanks for the suggestion.

By: regehr

regehr — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:35:12 +0000

Gasche, I’m talking about administrators: chairs, deans, college-level committees, etc. The chairs and deans make decisions about raises and also in many cases have effective veto power over hiring and promotion decisions.

By: regehr

regehr — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:32:46 +0000

Daniel, definitely. Also there’s a nontrivial amount of satisfaction in producing a really good paper — which takes an awful lot of time.

By: Improve your impact with abundance-based design

Improve your impact with abundance-based design — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:37:33 +0000

[...] ensure abundance. Don’t start more projects than you can execute with ease.Further reading: Publishing for Impact by John Regehr and The merits of chasing many rabbits at the same time by Alain Désilets. [...]

By: Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire — Tue, 10 May 2011 05:54:39 +0000

Add this : it is a lot more fun to work harder on fewer papers.