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Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists (www.nature.com)
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[–] worfosaurus@lemmy-api.ten4ward.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 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.