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Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w... by StableAlkyne on Friday July 31, 2026 @09:24AM (#49122844)
> If you add a score/metric this incentivizes the wrong thing,

Don't we already have all of these things because academia decided to use H-index as a metric for career impact?

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Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w... by weiliddat on Friday July 31, 2026 @09:42AM (#49123052)
Yeah exactly. One more metric isn't going to solve it.
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