>>13232856Almost nobody does really.
There's one anon who loves bragging about how much he published and what is h index is and all that shit who talks like this in almost every career oriented thread.
It absolutely kills creativity. I suppose the system endures because the people who thrive by publishing large amounts of low quality papers rise through the ranks and then have no incentive to change things.
But even Ed Witten, who has an insane publication rate now, I don't think was putting out 8 papers as a PhD student, which I do see coming out now. And 9 times out of 10 at least half those papers are just low quality trash.
But nowadays academia has been so thoroughly ruined and the jobs and money go to anyone but researchers so the only way to get anything is to publish like mad, and this is what it leads to. I think the EU recently looked at taking some steps to encourage publishing less overall and trying to shift to more higher quality papers, but who knows.
The system is completely broken. Peer review is almost busted due to the massive volumes of sewage going through it.
