"I am not going to spend less time on research, or contribute to 15 papers per year and then select the best 7, so this change will double the amount of time I spend on each paper. I'll use that time to craft better papers, doing more background reading, more consultation with stakeholders and more model testing, and giving more consideration to what the results mean for public health in practice."
"At that rate, I reflected, I could publish 100 papers in a decade. Nevertheless, a century still seemed a remote and unattainable score, something that only the most distinguished professors were likely to achieve before they retired. Fast forward two decades, and ten papers per year now looks pedestrian when you consider the growing number of hyper-prolific authors who publish more than 60 papers annually - one or more papers a week."
Career progression moved from publishing ten papers in 2005 to an environment where hyper-prolific authors produce over 60 papers annually. Departmental incentives emphasized publication counts and journal prestige over substantive quality. Personal output will be capped at seven papers per year, reduced from a recent median of 15, with double the time spent per paper to allow deeper background reading, stakeholder consultation, model testing, and assessment of public-health implications. Rapidly rising publication numbers threaten research quality and the integrity of the publication system.
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