Tim Verstynen on Nostr: Today I discovered that there are certain "high profile" professors who are regularly ...
Today I discovered that there are certain "high profile" professors who are regularly courted for (and strategically accept) coauthorship on papers, with minimal effort or work, solely to increase the likelihood that the paper will be accepted at a top tier journal.
This is basically the Trump business model applied to science.
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