For far too long, academia and publishers have turned a blind eye to the absurd phenomenon of so-called "super-publication powers," as highlighted in the post above. A glaring example is the Danish Full Professor who, in 2020, churned out an astonishing average of six (6) Scopus-indexed papers per week—yes, per week!. Such output defies not just credibility but also the basic limits of human intellectual and physical capacity. When individuals produce at rates that strain the boundaries of reason, the entire academic system risks collapsing under the weight of its own hypocrisy.
A few months ago, a mathematician (pictured at the start of this post) authored a paper that identified, quantified, and illustrated the typical signs of scientists exhibiting papermilling behavior. The paper presents clear examples, including a comparison of two researchers who have previously appeared on the Highly Cited Researchers list having similar career lengths. These profiles are depicted in Figure 1 and Figure 2, reproduced below https://arxiv.org/html/2405.19872v2 He suggests that to quantify the observed patterns, the following indicators can be used when analyzing papermilling behavior:
