On: Pseudonymity in Academic Publishing

[kurikuri]

It is less about the quality of work, but that the source itself should have some form of ‘blame.’ Plagiarism is still a risk, and the main deterrence against it is the reputation of the authors.

[slavik81 → kurikuri]

There are some rather important papers that were written under pseudonyms, e.g. Student (1908). "The Probable Error of a Mean"

[otoburb → slavik81]

And Nicolas Bourbaki's "Éléments de mathématique".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

[cafard → slavik81]

Well, that was the policy of his employer (Guinness).