Publish or perish

[Genady]

Do the chemists here know about this researcher?

What do professional scientists here think about this story?

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has published a study every 37 hours this year

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“factories of scientific studies,” produced by copying and pasting other studies or by automatic text generators

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 he does not know all the Iranian co-authors listed on the study

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has been using the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to “polish” his texts

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One of the world’s most cited scientists, Rafael Luque, suspended without pay for 13 years | Science & Tech | EL PAÍS English (elpais.com)

[CharonY]

Lots of issues and there is really something seriously wrong with the publishing culture nowadays. Fundamentally, the rate of research and writing is not possible. I do know especially engineers who are very prolific, but the way it usually works is that they are co-authors, with other folks writing the work and one basically chips in parts of it. So typically one would not be first or last author on those articles.

Even if someone else generated all that data, just quality checking and discussing them (which is your duty as the corresponding author) will take more than 37 hours, not to mention the time it takes to actually write it.

The only way it can in theory work is that they are all basically the same paper, just with e.g. substrate or catalyst exchanged, or something simple like that and or there are hundreds of folks working for him and he just signs off on finished manuscripts without checking.

Heck, just getting the signature of all co-authors can take longer. And this is without touching the issue of affiliations, which should be fairly straightforward under normal circumstances. This here looks rather sketchy.