Tangent… this bit of the abstract blows my mind and makes me wonder wtf we’re actually even doing
“ Studying 243,375 published articles in economics between 2015 and 2022”
7 years. Nearly 35,000 articles in economics per year. Why?
Apparently, there is a lot of economics research? In STM, there are now about 3 million articles every year, e.g., more than 10k papers/a just on the topic of the brain area "Hippocampus".
Article growth has been paralleling growth in researcher numbers for several decades now at about 3%/a.
All that impact, all that novel contribution to knowledge. I don’t understand how we still have problems to solve with that kind of volume flowing through research pipelines.
Or maybe, just maybe, the publication-industrial complex has academics chasing metrics.
Björn Brembs
Scott Matter