One side comment: It's true that the focus on publications has made the # of papers go through the roof. On the other hand, I can quickly sift through papers us

One side comment: It's true that the focus on publications has made the # of papers go through the roof. On the other hand, I can quickly sift through papers using google scholar, whereas I never could before. For any fact I'm looking into, reams have been written about it. This is, to my experience, a huge boon to writing papers and doing research quickly. This has nothing to do with collusion, but some in this thread are saying that just the number of papers is indicative of a problem.