Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists
Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists
Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour.
Wow, this really is disturbing. Clinical medicine is the last field where we want to see fraud and fudging of numbers.
Here's a really great video on the topic in regard to the head of Havard's astrophysics department.
Paul Erdos has entered the chat.
anyone care to shed light on how physics authorship practices differ from the others that results in its exclusion?
Agreed, I was a bit confused as to why all of physics is such a blatant outlier. Maybe big experimental physics (e.g. LHC) with their 150+ author papers?
yeah but there are so many types of physics, theoretical and experimental, as well as physics that blend into other fields. Seems like a big field to leave out?
regardless, my guess is one could easily control for author sizes of team science papers, or filter them out for separate analyses.
maybe there’s some special authorship culture in physics that warrants this.