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As a non-chemist academic, it is fully beyond me how anyone churns out papers at a rate of one every three days. That is the rate he says he has even without re
by nequo 4y ago
As a non-chemist academic, it is fully beyond me how anyone churns out papers at a rate of one every three days. That is the rate he says he has even without relying on ChatGPT.
Is there a lot of overlap in the contribution that each of his individual papers make? Or are a lot of these replication studies, carried out by different teams in parallel, with him being a co-author on each of them? I'd be curious to read an academic chemist about how this is possible.
- fock 4y agoHe seems to have kickstarted his citation count by reviews. This is sadly extremely common; a surprising amount of researchers nowadays don't have an actual discovery/novel experiment in their first 10 highest cited papers... He now still does those in reputable journals to relatively random, but en-vogue topics. Then he goes out and trades his name to less visible research (which is ok to do) to actual crap in 2nd to predatory tier journals in exchange for more citations (probably citing other works including him ;)). Generally possible everywhere, also done in the none-Google/Meta/... world of ML. Just look here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9764877/proceeding https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9764877/proceeding - just a random collection of crap.
- stefan_ 4y agoHe has just taken the whole "metric becomes the goal" thing to its logical conclusion. If you are only valued by your citation count..