Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days

I did my PhD in a group with ~20 students and postdocs including many co-supervised with some other department. The prof in charge of the group had his name on > 90% of the papers we published, I believe justifiably. He would have read all of them, and written sections where appropriate, and had a hand in directing and organizing the research as well as challenging the results and strengthening the presentation of the paper. So he was probably on…

This is a great study and gives insights in to what's wrong with research today. As the study has uncovered the causes: - mentorship of very many young researchers - leadership of a research team - becoming full professors, department chairs - leadership roles in large centres As the paper states: at the peak of their productivity, some cardiologists publish 10 to 80 times more papers in one year compared with their average annual productivity when they were 35–42 years…