Does it seem like "productivity" shouldn't be measured in number of papers? The fact that in many places it is measured in number of publications gave us Hinda

Does it seem like "productivity" shouldn't be measured in number of papers? The fact that in many places it is measured in number of publications gave us Hindawi/Elsevier open access and OMICS spam conferences. That said, the number of really good publications from China in Western journals has risen from almost none in 1995 to a few in 2005 and nowadays they are plentiful. India, not so much, Japan, not so much.