Timeline for When did "Publish or Perish" first become a thing?
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| Sep 17, 2019 at 15:38 | comment | added | BrianH | Great digging, and I love the context of the quote, as it seems to suggest the phrase may have actually meant that one should publish because otherwise the researcher will 'perish', not because of external pressure but because of a lack of inspiration and involvement. This is a very different meaning than the one we think about today! Important to consider the use of the term itself does not necessarily suggest the same environment we experience - context matters for interpretation, and multiple meanings can co-exist (as other answers show as well). +1 | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 12:36 | history | edited | iayork | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2019 at 12:31 | history | answered | iayork | CC BY-SA 4.0 |