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Could you please expand? I don’t believe I understand the question.

• wpietri 7d ago
  You said that people could do a thing. I'm asking why they would. Academic fraud is done to boost the reputation of the academic. There isn't a lot of point in academic fraud with one paper on each of 50 fake names.
  • doc_ick 7d ago
    Ahhhh, that makes more sense. Academic fraud may not always be used to boost the reputation of an academic, it could boost the reputation of a science/technique/medicine. If you see 30 authors with 1,000s of citations saying x is superior and 3 authors saying y is superior, from a quick glance x seems a lot better. Edit: see medical studies