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I want to start an honest conversation about something I have been thinking about for a while.

As a fourth-year PhD student, I have watched the academic publication ecosystem up close. The pressure to publish in high-impact journals has created perverse incentives:

  • Researchers cherry-pick results to show positive findings
  • Null results are systematically rejected
  • The same idea gets cut into multiple 'minimum publishable units' to inflate output
  • Citation rings inflate impact scores

What do you think? Is this a structural problem that needs policy-level intervention, or are there practical things individual researchers can do?

I am particularly interested in hearing from senior faculty who have seen this evolve over their careers.

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Ashwin Murthy Distinguished 560 pts · Accepted answer

Seconding the recommendation for Zotero. Game changer for managing references across multiple projects.

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Rekha Shetty Starting 40 pts · Accepted answer

This is exactly what I needed to hear. One clarifying question: you mentioned FedProx handles non-IID data better.does that mean I should switch to FedProx by default, or only if I observe poor convergence with FedAvg first?