A humorous bar chart comparing the planned vs. actual time spent on academic paper writing, highlighting delays and inefficiencies in research publishing.
History
Creation date
2017-01-25
AltText
A cartoon bar chart compares planned vs. actual time spent on writing a research paper.
Transcript
Person 1: Meeting titled "Project planning"
Person 2: 10 mins hastily scrawling notes
Person 1: Browsing catalogs
Person 2: 'Waiting for orders'
Person 1: First experiment
Person 2: Fixing equipment
Person 1: All other experiments
Person 2: First draft
Person 1: Wait for co-authors
Person 2: Submit to journal
Person 1: Change image formats
Person 2: Re-submit
Person 1: Write angry reply
Person 2: Write second polite reply
Text: Time spent on a paper – Planned / Time spent on a paper – Reality / Designing experiments / Running experiment / Collecting data / Writing the paper / Uploading data / Waiting for a reply from the journal / Corrections / Start / "Woo Hoo"