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Re:What are some of the worst academic papers ever published? by hatmatrix on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:01AM (#19300071)
There is also this paper (which I may have gotten from a Hacker News post in the past):

Tsai, A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves, Diabetes Care 1994 Feb; 17(2): 152-154. [1]

Related blog post: "Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations" [2]

[1] http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract

[2] https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-research...

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Re:What are some of the worst academic papers ever published? by kasperni on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:45AM (#19301132)
Here is the actual paper: https://math.berkeley.edu/~ehallman/math1B/TaisMethod.pdf

It even thanks a Professor of Electrical Engineering for his expert review.

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Re:What are some of the worst academic papers ever published? by kasperni on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:39AM (#19301095)
Yes, this is top ranked [1] peer-reviewed journal just in case anyone is wondering

[1] https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=2712

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