> Researchers are judged on published papers? Publish papers that appear just good enough to be published, ignore everything else.
This isn't particularly Chinese, though. Let me clear: by far, most researchers who "make it" in academia are very capable and very highly deserving of their careers. However, it is quite obvious that you can also advance your career by cynically focusing your research in exactly the way you say.
This isn't particularly Chinese, though. Let me clear: by far, most researchers who "make it" in academia are very capable and very highly deserving of their careers. However, it is quite obvious that you can also advance your career by cynically focusing your research in exactly the way you say.