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It doesn't surprise me that many of the prolific authors are in medical and life sciences. I have worked with validating registered research at a large hospital
by tokai 8y ago
It doesn't surprise me that many of the prolific authors are in medical and life sciences. I have worked with validating registered research at a large hospital (actually a conglomerate of multiple hospitals) and the physicians there had the most 'creative' ways of registering their research I have ever seen. Interviewed by a journalist? Let's put that down as a peer reviewed journal article. It was absolutely jaw dropping some of the things they tried to get way with in order to inflate their publication numbers. I'm sure that many other tricks are being used, like pressuring students to publish papers and get your name on them without any work, etc. Citation cartels have been uncovered among journals that you wouldn't normally think to be predatory, and are indexed by Scopus and/or WoS. It would not surprise me the least if publication cartels exists as well, with editors and reviewers agreeing to let anything get published in exchange for returning the favor.
- amelius 8y agoAnother way is to simply use existing methods applied to a new gene/molecule. So in principle you're just doing the work of a laboratory technician, but you get to publish a scientific article.
- whatshisface 8y agoThat still sounds like potentially useful work to me, I always appreciate it when I'm looking something up and can find those gigantic tables of everything applied to everything. Perhaps not a Nature paper but at least it's something.
- killjoywashere 8y agoWhat hurts is the whiff of grant cartels. You read some of the grants and it's not hard to believe they we're written with someone in mind.