[inimino]

The number of publications per year per academic seems to me to have increased over the last 50 years. I don't have a citation.

Regardless, my original claim was that the absolute number of papers is growing, and most of them are trash. I think the sheer volume of trash has consequences that were not so serious 100 years ago, even if the percentage of trash was the same. I strongly suspect the percentage of trash has been going up, as well.

My argument is that "publish or perish" makes less and less sense the more active scientists and researchers there are, even if the average quality and the rate of publication per academic were constant, because the appetite and rate at which research can be assimilated by society is limited, and does not scale with population, while the number of scientists does.

I don't think these claims are extraordinary, and if you do, I'm not going to go looking for extraordinary evidence to try to convince you. I don't think I'm the only that sees these effects, however.

[irq11]

”The number of publications per year per academic seems to me to have increased over the last 50 years. I don't have a citation.”

Yeah, that’s not evidence.

The absolute number of papers is growing - along with the number of working scientists. There’s been huge growth in academic science since the 1970s.