I'm trying to do some background research for my bachelors thesis, and I noticed that there's a shit ton of really poor quality papers out there. I've been searching the ACM and IEEE databases, and there are lots of papers that have been cited zero times. Many of them are also really brief and it almost seems like the haven't actually even researched anything.

Is modern "science" really like this? Do people just shit out useless papers on purpose or what?