Timeline for Publishing a bad paper?
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| Dec 19, 2012 at 17:19 | comment | added | Roland Bacher | I'm never kidding but I lie always. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 13:42 | comment | added | fedja | Yeah, if it is discovered, you are out of the game for good. I wouldn't recommend anything that risky. In principle, there is another way (a hard one though): try to turn what you have into something worthy by your standards. There are no such things as "toxic fields" or "top tier journals"; there are just people who are incapable of doing math. and people with snobbish attitudes. So, you can always make lemonade out of a lemon, but sometimes it requires a lot of strength to squeeze the juice and I have no idea if you are up to the task or not... | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 12:40 | comment | added | Yuichiro Fujiwara | Ah, of course he was kidding. I guess I better stop browsing the internet when it's 4 in the morning. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 12:35 | comment | added | Yuichiro Fujiwara | That solution Roland suggested is kinda crossing the line to me for many reasons... Anyway, I feel like the professor might get upset when he sees the published date on arXiv. He might think someone beat him to it because the lazy grad student was slacking off, not writing up the result quickly? | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 12:23 | comment | added | Suvrit | I think Roland must be kidding --- the price of such deception can be huge! (for vote=0;; vote--) | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 8:14 | comment | added | Roland Bacher | Fedja's advice gives you a rather machiavellic way out of your situation. Write quickly up a second (perhaps very short and badly written) paper containing the result, put it under another name on the arXiv, go to your collegue and say: "Sorry, I have just seen this on the arXiv, we have been doubled." | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 3:59 | history | answered | fedja | CC BY-SA 3.0 |