Want to publish more and have your papers cited more? Don’t drink that beer!
I know, NYTimes is supposed to be “all the news that is fit to print”, but I am surprised this made the cut.
According to the study, published in February in Oikos, a highly respected scientific journal, the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited by another researcher, a measure of a paper’s quality and importance.
Dr. Grim, the author of the stufy, carried out the research by surveying his fellow Czech ornithologists about their beer drinking habits first in 2002 and then in 2006. He obtained the same results each time.
Don’t know what Ornithologist means? How many beers did you have yesterday!?! Ornithology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of birds.
I don’t want to say that the study is wrong; but I think it is more likely to be confined to the scientists in Ornithology.
Here are some effects of beer; not publishing is not included in the list.
