“Bill McKelvey is one of the signatories to a controversial Chronicle piece that ran last month, We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research. The five authors, from a variety of academic disciplines, argue that ‘the amount of redundant, inconsequential, and outright poor research has swelled in recent decades, filling countless pages in journals and monographs’. As evidence they point to increases in the numbers of journals, journal pages, and authors and decreases in average citation rates …” (more)
[Peter Klein, Organizations and Markets, 8 July]