According to the study, published in February in Oikos, a highly respected scientific journal, the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited by another researcher, a measure of a paper’s quality and importance.
Some scientists suggest that biologists in the Czech Republic (the subjects in this study) could prove to be an anomaly, given that the country has a special relationship to beer, boasting the highest rate of beer consumption on earth.”
Scientists Who Drink More Beer Produce Less Work. (via rocketboom)