Thanks for those links. During my own PhD, I was pretty sure that the "least publishable increment" became negative. The underlying problem is that there is n

Thanks for those links. During my own PhD, I was pretty sure that the "least publishable increment" became negative. The underlying problem is that there is no penalty for publishing non-increments. For some inexplicable reason, citation impact assessments do not divide by the total number of publications. I have no doubt that such a normalization factor would go a long way to fixing the problem.