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Don‘t know much about publishing in maths but in some disciplines it is clearly incentivised to create the biggest possible number of papers out of a single research project, leading automatically to incremental publishing of results. I call it atomic publishing (from Greek atomos - indivisible) since such a paper contains only one result that cannot be split up anymore.


Andrew Wiles spent 6 years working on 1 paper, and then another year working on a minor follow-up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s_proof_of_Fermat%27...


Or cheese slicer publishing, as you are selling your cheese one slice at a time. The practice is usually frowned upon.


I thought this was called salami slicing in publication.




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