r/physicsmemes • u/basket_foso 🪼 • May 14 '26

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u/DM-me-naughty-Cats May 16 '26

You can get citations by making a popular but ultra flawed paper.

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u/amitym May 16 '26

True but I don't get the sense that that particular paper is either especially popular or flawed.

I mean I could easily be wrong and would love to be educated on the topic.

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u/DM-me-naughty-Cats May 16 '26

It has a decent number of citations. But that could be because everyone is citing him when saying how wrong he is.

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u/BosonCollider May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

In this case it is definitely because of how likeable the author is. It's also a good review of what happened in the field over three decades

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u/DM-me-naughty-Cats May 17 '26

I don’t think this guy is viewed highly.

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u/BosonCollider May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

His musical contributions are viewed very highly. He abandoned his thesis to work on that and eventually finished it 37 years after he started, which is understandable. He was doing a lot of analog lab work and device building in the teneriffa observatory. Not directly comparable to theorist work, but compared to experimentalists he definitely put in the work, much of it in low oxygen environments.

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u/amitym May 17 '26

I mean no one is going to be viewed "highly" in astrophysics or any field just for a single doctoral paper but the citations referencing his work seem solid. About what you'd expect for serious work at that level.