It speaks to the broken state of measuring scientific and academic output. It's 99% a charade, people churning out machine generated papers nobody reads but get quoted in an attempt to justify the inflated claims of other machine generated garbage papers, in a circular attempt to fudge the stats that decide the funding and promotion.
The idea that someone can even read, edit and make co-author level contributions in papers aimed for a top-level journals, all in the span of 37 hours, is utterly ridiculous.
It's basically the equivalent of SEO spamming the Page rank algorithm with crummy pages with many back-links and repeated search terms. The search optimized term here is the author's name.
The idea that someone can even read, edit and make co-author level contributions in papers aimed for a top-level journals, all in the span of 37 hours, is utterly ridiculous.
It's basically the equivalent of SEO spamming the Page rank algorithm with crummy pages with many back-links and repeated search terms. The search optimized term here is the author's name.