The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
Software Engineering
2025-05-15 v1
Abstract
If software research were a performance, it would be a thoughtful theater play -- full of rich content but confined to the traditional stage of academic publishing. Meanwhile, its potential audience is immersed in engaging on-demand experiences, leaving the theater half-empty, and the research findings lost in the wings. As long as this remains the case, discussions about research relevance and impact lack meaningful context.
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@article{arxiv.2505.09541,
title = {The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience},
author = {Marvin Wyrich and Christof Tinnes and Sebastian Baltes and Sven Apel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09541},
year = {2025}
}
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Opinion article, accepted for publication in Communications of the ACM