I agree with you. PIs that have their name in so many articles are actually gaming the system. Nature and Science journals now require author contributions. Ad

I agree with you. PIs that have their name in so many articles are actually gaming the system. Nature and Science journals now require author contributions. Administration, fund acquisition, etc. are typically no longer valid to claim authorship. Cell is an exception and does allow this. So in my experience they simply force other coauthors to give them credit for study design when they did none.