Named Conference Paper and Journal Paper Development Techniques

• The Spice Girl: “When two becomes one”. Create a new paper by combining two existing papers.
• Reverse Spice Girl: Convert the existing paper into two or more papers at the section breaks
• On-the-rebound: Resubmitting last year’s rejected paper without changes for an acceptance.
• Nothing but Net: Entire paper sourced from blogs, wikis, google and e-mail conversations.
• Global Yawning: Same paper, different continent, new title.
• The Silent Partner: When adding your name to a paper was your contribution to the word count.
• The Glass Slipper: A tragic and desperate attempt to make the data fit until you find the perfect methodology.
• Back to the Future: Revising a four year old paper with a handful of contemporary references
• The Unread Herring: An advanced form of Fishing expedition with references to articles that the reviewer could not possibly access to validate but which are just possible that the author might have been able to read, acquire or copy from someone else’s reference list.

From @Nedra

• Fishing Expedition:  “I know there’s a paper somewhere in all this data.” See also the type of paper that must have point somewhere in the data, results, flowcharts and models.
• Old wine, new bottles: Repackage tried and true principles using shinier, better names/diagrams