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Measuring the amount of papers is questionable as well. One paper with a ridiculous breakthrough (cold fusion, etc) could outweigh all the others.

• ronnier 17y ago
  Having gone through graduate school, I've seen my share of nonsense papers created just to have a topic for a thesis.
  • siavosh 17y ago
    Same here, one of the reasons I quit my phd program. I saw how much of the publication volume is bs--it's really hard and rare to produce a meaningful research paper, and that rarity will only increase. If you go to a top cs conference, chances are 80% of the papers are throw-away...literally no one will read other than the reviewers, and I'm talking about top-conferences let alone the countless lesser known ones. And to be honest, a lot of emerging countries seem to be mass producing a lot of low quality papers in CS, and it's flooding the field. One reason might be how cheap it is to fund a cs research project as opposed to an experimental physics or bio lab.
  • csomar 17y ago
    same in medicine, they collect garbage from the Internet, make a 1000 page book and become specialist doctors with it.