(Or how to bury your work so deeply that no-one will ever know it existed in the first place!)
If there’s one piece of advice I’d give myself as a young researcher, it would probably be “never agree to write a book chapter!”
Of course, there are plenty of good academic book chapters around. But over the years I’ve sadly come to realize that this is the fastest way to make my work inaccessible to people who might otherwise benefit from it — partly because academic books are so expensive that few people can afford to read them!
However, I’ve just come across an even more effective way of ensuring no-one has a hope in hell of benefiting from your research: publishing a chapter in a book which is then dropped from subsequent editions.
