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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by jmmcd on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:20PM (#17975129)
I agree. In my field there are entire journals which I regard as rubbish and which are 95%+ Chinese/East Asian. Part of the problem is integrity, but a larger portion of the bad papers are just meaningless cargo-cult science.
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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by dnautics on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:09PM (#17975658)
i mean that's true across the board. A large portion of bad startups are just meaningless cargo culting, etc.
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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by sct202 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:32PM (#17981665)
Also the recent rash of articles documenting low rates of being able to reproduce results of many well cited papers.
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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by jmmcd on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:52PM (#17975865)
Not really. There are other journals that I do read.
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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by bushin on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:41AM (#17976329)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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