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Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists (www.nature.com)
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[–] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

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 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.