For a few years I worked closely with computer engineers in a S E Asian university. I got to know quite well the sort of stuff they published. Some of the dodgy stuff i saw:
Recycling. Some papers seemed to be near duplicates of prior work by the same academic, with minor modification.
Faddishnes. Papers featuring the latest buzz technologies regardless of whether they were appropriate.
Questionable authorship. Some senior academics would get their name included on publications regardless of whether they had been actively engaged with that project. I saw a few academics get involved in risky and potentially interesting subjects, but they all risked their careers in doing so.
But most of all, there was a dearth of true innovation. The university noticed this and established an Innovation Centre. It quickly became full of second hand projects all frustratingly similar to projects in the US from a few years ago.
Of course there were exceptions, and learning from them was a genuine growth experience fir which I am grateful.
Recycling. Some papers seemed to be near duplicates of prior work by the same academic, with minor modification.
Faddishnes. Papers featuring the latest buzz technologies regardless of whether they were appropriate.
Questionable authorship. Some senior academics would get their name included on publications regardless of whether they had been actively engaged with that project. I saw a few academics get involved in risky and potentially interesting subjects, but they all risked their careers in doing so.
But most of all, there was a dearth of true innovation. The university noticed this and established an Innovation Centre. It quickly became full of second hand projects all frustratingly similar to projects in the US from a few years ago.
Of course there were exceptions, and learning from them was a genuine growth experience fir which I am grateful.