Philippe DOMENECH

How many papers is too many in a year? Was pointed to this Facebook poll (thank you). We did a similar one recently, but set the threshold at 30. It is subjective but ... 1⃣ The poll says "The current threshold ... is 60". Where does that threshold come from? Anybody know? 2⃣ What would you consider as "too many" papers in a year, bearing in mind that there will never be a number that everybody agrees on?

. In the last 12 days the most hyper productive authors of 2024 have all (bar one) published 20 papers. Twelve days ago we posted a tweet that received over 901K impressions (but far our most viewed tweet). It showed the authors that had published over 200 papers in 2024. You can see that tweet here: xitter.cf/fake_journals/status/1…. We thought it was worth taking another look at these authors, just 12 days on. In the past 12 days, they have all increased the number of papers they have published. Here is what we observe: 🔴All 22 authors have published more than one paper a day in the past 12 days. All but one have published 1.67 papers a day. 🔴Authors 7-22 had all published 216 papers 12 days ago. They have all now increased by exactly 20 papers. We have not looked more deeply at the data (yet), but that cannot be a coincidence, can it? 🔴Authors 2-6 have also increased by exactly 20 papers. Again, this (surely) cannot be a coincidence, can it? What is your takeaway message from these findings? PS: Unlike the last tweet, we now show the author names as i) people knew anyway and ii) it is in the public domain (well at least to those who have access to @Scopus).