Timeline for Should I be careful who I share my unpublished results with?
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| Sep 11, 2015 at 14:09 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | I definitely second @O.R.Mapper point of view. I work in a quite collaborative environment, but I've met people who had to work with peers unwilling to share ideas and data. and they told me that the collaboration was simply a nightmare. | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 13:40 | history | edited | QuantallicA | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2015 at 13:29 | comment | added | QuantallicA | You are absolutely right. Let me edit my answer. | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 13:24 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | I do not doubt that a lot of plagiarism happens. Nonetheless, I believe that treating academic research as a secret akin to commercial developments, suspecting other researchers, departments, and institutions of being plagiarizing adversaries and consequently treating them like competition rather than possibly-collaborating-peers, and relying on secrecy and working within a small team rather than searching opportunities for frequent discussion and critique with as many researchers, domain experts, etc. as possible are bad habits for conducting academic research and stifling for its quality. | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 13:14 | comment | added | QuantallicA | @O.R.Mapper Here is the link of a study on geography of plagiarism published by Science magazine. news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/12/… I know the essence of scientific development is collaboration however you'd better be careful who you are sharing your ideas with. | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 13:09 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "The general guideline is: Don't share your work with anyone." - I just cannot agree with this statement in the current general form. Sharing and discussing ideas with other researchers is the basis for getting any contacts that might lead to collaborations, and especially if a work is not yet far enough evolved to be publishable, the synergies with other people's work might be what is missing to make it publishable. While some precautions against plagiarism may be taken, academic research in general is not a place for isolationism, secret projects, or avoiding communication. | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 13:04 | history | answered | QuantallicA | CC BY-SA 3.0 |