most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-21T17:54:22Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/21536 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/88910/2-short-article-vs-a-long-one Anonymous 2012-02-19T08:50:37Z 2012-02-19T10:33:42Z

<p>Hi,</p> <p>I am a beginning mathematician and I need some publishing advice. I have some results obtained during my PhD research and I was wondering about the best way to publish them.</p> <p>My initial intuition was to write one long article containing all my results (because for me it is all part of the same research). On the other hand, a more experienced mathematician suggested to publish two medium articles, with the following rationalizations: a short article is more likely to be read/published, the results can be presented independently and as a beginning mathematician it is better that I have a reasonable number of short articles instead of very few long articles (this may sound a bit cynical). </p> <p>This sounded reasonable enough, but when I wrote the two articles, I found out that a quit large part which I introduce the setting is practically the same in both articles (the results and main theorems are obviously different). </p> <p>I am looking for advice – how reasonable is it for a mathematician to publish two articles which has a very similar beginning and themes? (I should stress – the results are different – I am not trying to publish the same result twice!) </p>