Publish or perish

Good scientific practices lead to public benefits, while poor scientific practices waste time and money, and perverse academic incentives rewarding the quantity rather than quality of publications aren’t helping.

Bottles hurled into the sea

Margaret Atwood once said that “publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea” What makes some bottles sink without trace, while others come safe to land and are read by a few – or countless millions.