Campbell, 1988, explaining why he disliked working in Chicago and almost considered leaving academia (which would have been a huge loss) due to the highly competitive environment and the idea you should write only brilliant papers.
I've been getting quite a lot of interview requests lately - often from people writing a book about something that I supposedly have expertise on. Some of these people are asking for multi-hour interviews. How do folks deal with this? Do you charge for your time?
I co-authored a book review some years ago that has, inexplicably, been cited 144 times.
I am starting to wonder if this might eventually turn into a criminal case.
What. A. Fucking. Asshole.
Web of Science makes it easy to calculate self-citation rates and the difference across researchers is nuts. I know of one person for whom self-citations are >20% of their total citations. For comparison, I'm at around 1%.
