This is a news? I thought the Publish or Perish idiom made it obvious.
2 weeks of effort goes into doing something and you spend 2 months of writing a paper of the slightest of the result. Many of these papers introduce an infinitesimal increment to knowledge, at best and you can tell how long would it have taken to get it working. And this is Numerical Mathematics. There are clans of Mathematicians who just go around citing each other. And a quality paper comes around every 5 years or so.
2 weeks of effort goes into doing something and you spend 2 months of writing a paper of the slightest of the result. Many of these papers introduce an infinitesimal increment to knowledge, at best and you can tell how long would it have taken to get it working. And this is Numerical Mathematics. There are clans of Mathematicians who just go around citing each other. And a quality paper comes around every 5 years or so.