Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03865-y

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Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y

Also maybe the use of AI made text? It's easier to produce papers faster.

Funny : this article looks like an AI made article. It's long compared to the actual information it provides.

worfosaurus@lemmy-api.ten4ward.social · 1 pts · 2y

Hilariously enough, the co-author quoted in this article co-authored over 70 papers in 2023. That's well above the 60 paper/year metric they are using to determine what qualifies as "extremely productive".

While I agree that academia puts far too much emphasis on quantity of publications rather than quality, this is a mind-numbing level of hypocrisy.