It has become a game of reputation, citations and the number of papers. It works the same way that a company does, with the actual work being done by students a

It has become a game of reputation, citations and the number of papers. It works the same way that a company does, with the actual work being done by students and postdocs and citations accumulated by management (a lot of them don’t do research, rather spend time putting their names in different papers, collecting more and more students, and playing academic politics). After a while, they become a luminary and collect awards.