I was looking at some conference programs and noticed the same names appearing not once, twice, but thrice. Twice as first author, once as second.

I looked up that person and noticed that they had been publishing a lot in 2019 alone. How do they do this? Do they not need time to do actual research?

I’ve been working on some research, and I was going to submit it to a conference later this year, but just now someone else has done the same thing (on a different dataset). Can I still publish this? If not, how do these people that publish so much not have this happen all the time? I essentially have to throw away half a year of work because someone else submitted to a conference with an earlier deadline.

Sometimes I dread research…