> yet could we discuss what’s happening there, if anything? Without actual details, there’s nothing to really discuss. Surely you can look up some of his paper

> yet could we discuss what’s happening there, if anything? Without actual details, there’s nothing to really discuss. Surely you can look up some of his papers and read them, right? Usually people churning out papers aren’t writing anything substantial in most of them. Could be plagiarizing other papers, in which case you could probably figure it out with some targeted searching. But it should go without saying that he’s probably not actually making a breakthrough every other week like clockwork. If he brags about volume of publishing first but not really about what he’s studying, you probably have your answer.