"Success in academia is measured in the number of citations your paper receives." Which is why the quality of papers (among other reasons) has gone downhill. I

"Success in academia is measured in the number of citations your paper receives." Which is why the quality of papers (among other reasons) has gone downhill. I knew a particularly brilliant scientist who would do basic work at a reduced rate in a corporate setting as long as the people actually writing the paper included him in the author list. He shows up on over 1000 papers, many of which are of dubious scientific merit, but because of those kinds of numbers, more and more people flock to him for similar work, without realizing it.