On one hand, we have Divya, Surabhi, Jennifer and Garima who formulate a hypothesis, work on it for 5 months, get results and then get shafted when their advisers and the Head of the Department publish the paper in a shitty journal with practically no impact. On the other hand, I work on an idea for ~8 weeks, get an interesting-ish result and get a mail from my prof saying that hed like me to abstract my work so they can add it to their abstract which theyre sending to a conference and IF i cant do so in time, they would look at my report and do it. Either way, acknowledging me as a contributor to the high impact work. On the third hand (yes, lets assume there are 3 hands), I developed a methodology at IISc and did just a tiny part of it before leaving and one year down the line I have authorship on the paper that will be submitted to a journal. Just saying..... From the best of my knowledge (and from prior experience), the third hand is almost as rare as a human being born with three hands and some researchers back home really have a lot to learn. This is just my opinion though.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:23:22 +0000
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