Though I use PubMed frequently, can't say I've encountered "copycat" articles. It's disheartening to find out what has been happening, but perhaps not a huge s

Though I use PubMed frequently, can't say I've encountered "copycat" articles. It's disheartening to find out what has been happening, but perhaps not a huge surprise to the extent publication becomes merely a commodity to accumulate in order to further an academic career. It does prompt me to keep an eye out for such occurrence. But I'm pretty sure not every researcher goes about things that way. Maybe it depends on the field of research. The topics of interest to me could simply be too obscure to attract that kind of attention. Sure seems if anything can be done with computing technology, it will be done. What sort of future awaits us? We humans always seem to do until we overdo then redo it all over again, it doesn't ever end.