Go for the jugular. Impact the career of people putting out substandard papers.
Come up with a score for "citation strength" or something.
Any given bad actor with too many substandard papers to his/her credit begins to negatively impact the "citation strength" of any paper on which they are a co-author. Maybe even negatively impacting the "citation strength" of papers that even cite papers authored or co-authored by the bad actor in question?
If, say, the major journals had a system like this in place, you'd see everyone perk up and get a whole lot less careless.
Go for the jugular. Impact the career of people putting out substandard papers.
Come up with a score for "citation strength" or something.
Any given bad actor with too many substandard papers to his/her credit begins to negatively impact the "citation strength" of any paper on which they are a co-author. Maybe even negatively impacting the "citation strength" of papers that even cite papers authored or co-authored by the bad actor in question?
If, say, the major journals had a system like this in place, you'd see everyone perk up and get a whole lot less careless.