Im on an academic foray to an R1 right now. One of the big items the PIs are drilling is the one paper per year mantra. Many papers today are representing what

Im on an academic foray to an R1 right now. One of the big items the PIs are drilling is the one paper per year mantra. Many papers today are representing what would have happened via open source repos in yesteryear. Meaning that there is a lot of work which is useful to someone and having peer reviewed benchmarks etc. is useful to understand whether those people should care. The weakness is that some of this work is the equivalent of shovelware.