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Re:About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean by BeetleB on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:09PM (#25308865)
When I was in academia, it was not unusual for the referees to reject a paper for this reason. Of course, you are informed of that and always have the option to rewrite the paper to include that information.

In some cases, though, it's not simply a matter of listing it as other work in the Intro - you may need to incorporate it into your models, etc.

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Re:About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean by calf on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:06PM (#25309529)
That's no justification for the rationale that critique or negative results in general are not paper worth or do not advance science in less short-sighted ways.
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Re:About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean by BeetleB on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:08PM (#25309550)
I wasn't discussing the appropriateness - I was pointing out that this behavior is normal in science. Your original comment was:

> Since when is a scientific paper required to do that.

Unfortunately, for a long time (since well before my time, at least).

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