Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour.
  • livus@kbin.social
    16·
    11 months ago

    Wow, this really is disturbing. Clinical medicine is the last field where we want to see fraud and fudging of numbers.

  • inspxtr@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 months ago

    anyone care to shed light on how physics authorship practices differ from the others that results in its exclusion?

    • swicano@kbin.social
      2·
      11 months ago

      Agreed, I was a bit confused as to why all of physics is such a blatant outlier. Maybe big experimental physics (e.g. LHC) with their 150+ author papers?

      • inspxtr@lemmy.world
        11·
        11 months ago

        yeah but there are so many types of physics, theoretical and experimental, as well as physics that blend into other fields. Seems like a big field to leave out?

        regardless, my guess is one could easily control for author sizes of team science papers, or filter them out for separate analyses.

        maybe there’s some special authorship culture in physics that warrants this.