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		Balgair on Oct 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I left my tenured academic job It depends on the field, but yes. Many optics researchers really only do presentations and they 'count' as paper publications. The pressure is still intense though.

CannoloBlahnik on Oct 4, 2020 [–]

Some areas focus on conference publications rather than journal publications—in optics is there no conference publication, just the presentation?

Balgair on Oct 4, 2020 | [–]

Oh man, yes, you are correct. My brain was somewhere else. My bad.

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