Longer term funding is definitely an issue, but the biggest thing is working alone. I appreciate interacting with people around my work and ideas, so when I am working primarily as an independent researcher, I build collaborations and work with others to ensure that I stay motivated. But even then, not having support for the work in the form of institutional backing and promotion, along with things like help with proofreading and copyediting, and doing graphic design, is definitely a possible cause for reduced impact.
Seconded, independence offers freedom but creates many difficulties to work around as well. That said, I never received any structured institutional support for proofing, editing, graphic design etc when working in academia although some of these tasks were supported by co-authors or supervisors.
Yeah, academia often sucks at this for students. Professors more often have staff in the department or for the school as a whole, or there is a center which does that stuff, or have grants which they can use. (And other organizations often have a much better setup.)
Longer term funding is definitely an issue, but the biggest thing is working alone. I appreciate interacting with people around my work and ideas, so when I am working primarily as an independent researcher, I build collaborations and work with others to ensure that I stay motivated. But even then, not having support for the work in the form of institutional backing and promotion, along with things like help with proofreading and copyediting, and doing graphic design, is definitely a possible cause for reduced impact.
Seconded, independence offers freedom but creates many difficulties to work around as well.
That said, I never received any structured institutional support for proofing, editing, graphic design etc when working in academia although some of these tasks were supported by co-authors or supervisors.
Yeah, academia often sucks at this for students. Professors more often have staff in the department or for the school as a whole, or there is a center which does that stuff, or have grants which they can use. (And other organizations often have a much better setup.)