Publications from the "highly productive"???

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Interesting article from Nature

Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists

Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour.

www.nature.com

 

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Interesting article from Nature

Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists

Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour.

www.nature.com

This has been going on for some time and this practice is well documented. But there’s also no incentive to change it.

You can easily tell by the first/last author to middle publication ratio.