“Is there a heuristic we might use to identify and flag questionable papers?”

Re:“Is there a heuristic we might use to identify and flag q... by non-e-moose on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:24PM (#32630667)

Count the number of "authors". Anything above 100 is absolutely garbage More then 10 is probably irrelevant and unproveable.

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Re:“Is there a heuristic we might use to identify and flag q... by pinko on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:55PM (#32630944)

World-class papers with >1000 authors are routinely published by large scientific collaborations like CMS, ATLAS, and LIGO.

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Re:“Is there a heuristic we might use to identify and flag q... by exmadscientist on Sunday August 28, 2022 @04:53PM (#32631960)

Very true, but if you consider things like "The ATLAS Collaboration" to be one (very composite) author, I think GP's reasoning has some merit. There is a lot of homogeneity in a collaboration author like that, so it's a reasonable thing to do. (Also, speaking from experience, most people in the collaboration paid no attention to the paper, unless it was a Big One.)

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