This short article is a great read

Peter Higgs of "Higgs boson" fame on today's publish or perish climate:

"He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today's academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers. He said: "It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964.""

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system