Avoiding the problem altogether is just throwing up your hands and saying "this is too hard so I'm not going to even try".

We already know there is some way to do it because researchers do salami slicing where they take one paper and split it up into multiple papers to get more numbers, out of the same work. Therefore one might for example look at a paper and think, how many papers could one get out of this if they were to take part in salami slicing in order to get at-least some measure of this initially.