成为高产大牛：如何一年发表7篇高因子SCI

• MIT研究院的秘诀

Writing is important
• Our major contribution is to communicate ideas, not only to create them
• It is NOT superficial for a committee to reject an article based on writing alone
• Even if ideas are great, when nobody can understand them, they are worthless

What I know about good writing is:

How to Write a BAD Article

Why am I so knowledgeable?
• I had several papers rejected
solely for bad writing
• I rejected several papers as a reviewer
– Reviewing is a great way to learn

为什么我如此博学?
我有几篇论文被拒绝了
仅仅因为写作不好
•作为审稿人，我拒绝了几篇论文
-复习是学习的好方法

Write the article only for you

• Assume the audience knows everything
you know
• You know your contribution
• So they know
• So you don’t need to write at all
• If you’ve been able to do the research,
they should be able to do it as well

•假设听众什么都知道
你知道
你知道自己的贡献
•所以他们知道
•所以你根本不需要写作
•如果你能够做研究，
他们也应该能够做到这一点

 

Don’t provide context上下文

• Don’t define the problem
– They won’t know if you solved it
• Don’t provide premises
• Don’t describe previous work
• Don’t compare to previous work
– You have not described it anyway

•不要定义问题
-他们不会知道你是否解决了
•不要提供前提
不要描述以前的工作
不要和以前的工作做比较
-反正你也没描述过

 

Write a purely descriptive paper

• We did this, we did that, and we did that
other things
• Don’t discuss alternative choice
• Don’t comment results
• Don’t provide take-home messages

•我们做了这个，我们做了那个，我们做了那个
其他的事情
不要讨论其他选择
不要评论结果
•不要提供带回家的信息

Spend 23 pages on detail

• You spent 3 months optimizing this part of
the code?
• The world needs to know about it!
• After all, people care about small details,
not big ideas?
• Or don’t they?

你花了3个月来优化这部分
的代码吗?
•世界需要了解它!
•毕竟，人们关心小细节，
没有伟大的想法?
•难道不是吗?

 

Be obscure晦涩

• Use tons of acronyms
• Change notations through the paper
• Define a new notation system where x is a
function and f is a value
• Use footnotes more than text
– Don’t forget to put footnotes in the footnotes
• And parentheses in the footnotes
– And digressions inside the parentheses
» After all, recursion is what CS is about
» And human brain has an infinite stack

使用大量的缩写词
在纸上做记号
定义一个新的符号系统，其中x是a
函数f是一个值
•多使用脚注，少使用文本
别忘了在脚注里加上脚注
•脚注中的括号
-以及括号内的题外话
毕竟，CS是关于递归的
人类的大脑有一个无限的堆栈

 

Be obnoxious讨厌的

• Insult the authors of previous work
– “We do not report the pitiful results of our ridiculous
competitors using their laughable technique, as this
would be an insult to human intelligence”
• But be politically correct
– Do not call them “stupid”
– But rather “intellectually challenged”
• Suggestions for exotic French insults
– Idiot de sa race
– Blaireau
– Pauv’ gars

侮辱以前作品的作者
-“我们不报告我们的荒谬的可怜的结果
竞争者使用他们可笑的技术，就像这样
将是对人类智慧的侮辱”
•但要在政治上正确
-不要叫他们“蠢货”
而是“智力有问题”
•对异国情调的法国侮辱的建议
-白痴德萨赛
——獾毛
——Pauv空对空导弹

 

Copy-paste

• Need a previous work section?
• Just copy it from somebody else’s paper!
• After all, since these people are the
specialists in the field, they’re unlikely to
read or review your paper
• Or will they?

•需要一个以前的工作部分?
•只是从别人的论文中抄袭!
•毕竟，既然这些人是
这个领域的专家，他们不太可能
阅读或复习你的论文
•他们会吗?

 

Oversell, overgeneralize

• Instead of “on the only example we tried, the method performed 1% faster”
• Write “Our new method was proved to achieve dramatic speedup compared to the dumb method used by intellectually challenged competitors. And it does the coffee too”
• See part on insults

•不是“在我们尝试的唯一一个示例上，该方法执行速度快1%”
•写道:“我们的新方法被证明比那些智力有问题的竞争对手使用的愚蠢方法能显著提高速度。它也会煮咖啡"
 

The infamous声名狼藉的 word “paradigm”

• E.g. in biomedical, the use of “paradigm” has grown 26% a year in the 90’s
• Articles who use paradigm are less often cited (according to Science magazine)
• Doing a search on “paradigm” in citeseer broke their system

•例如，在生物医学领域，“范式”的使用在90年代以每年26%的速度增长
•使用范式的文章较少被引用(根据《科学》杂志)
•在citeseer上搜索“范型”打破了他们的系统

 

What is a paradigm?

• From the Greek paradeigma
• An example, an archetype
• Alternatives to “paradigm”: Idea, style, format, pattern, hypothesis approach, algorithm, model, metaphor

•来自希腊天堂
•一个例子，一个原型
•替代“范式”:思想、风格、格式、模式、假设方法、算法、模型、隐喻

 

Infamous titles声名狼藉的标题

• See Robert Fulford's and Todd Sallo’s columns about “paradigm”
• Paradigm and Paradox: Explorations into a Paradigmatic Theory of Meaning and its Epistemological Background
• A new paradigm for imaging systems
• Essays on Creating Sacred Relationships: The Next Step to a New
Paradigm
• Handbook for the New Paradigm
• Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future
• The word is used even on bumper stickers!

•参见罗伯特•富尔福德(Robert Fulford)和托德•萨罗(Todd Sallo)关于“范式”的专栏文章。
•范式与悖论:对范式理论的探索的意义及其认识论背景
•成像系统的新范式
•关于建立神圣关系的文章:迈向新关系的下一步范式
•新范式手册
•范式:发现未来的业务
•这个词甚至被用在保险杠贴纸上!

 

Vocabulary inflation词汇的通货膨胀

• Buzzwords are cool… yet shallow
• Do we need to say that we invent a new paradigm each time we propose an incremental improvement to an algorithm?
• It is true that my paradigm beats your idea any day
• Is there shame in inventing algorithms?

•流行语很酷，但也很肤浅
•我们是否需要说，每次我们提出一个算法的增量改进时，我们都发明了一个新的范式?
•的确，我的范式总有一天会打败你的想法
•发明算法有耻辱吗?