[7thaccount]

My field is different, but as someone from the industry side that keeps up with our counterpart in academia....most of what is being published is worthless. It serves no purpose other than to inflate publishing statistics. It has a lot of relevant keywords, but nothing I can actually use in industry to solve the problem the paper reports to.

For example, there will be a paper on how to fix X and I'll get really excited, but then realize that the idea shows that the person fundamentally doesn't understand the field and then they'll apply some obscure algorithm that is vastly inferior to the state of the art 20 years ago on a tiny model and then claim success.