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Re the news article ¡°Young academics¡¯ research ¡®elegant but not interesting¡¯¡± (23 February), in which an emeritus professor bemoans the increasing ¡°conservatism¡± of young scholars¡¯ papers.

A colleague of mine in another department says that if you are not rewriting the older academic stuff and patting one another on the back for ¡°a job well done¡± by rehashing the old stuff, you will never get published in his field.

He was rejected recently with new research on a topic that disputed an old theory, being told that it was ¡°too new¡± an idea to have merit, even though the proof was there in the data.

So, I think it depends perhaps on the field, too.

VintageHippie78
Via timeshighereducation.com

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