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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have a high school friend who owns a paper mill. He was a rich kid who never did the work, and always took credit for others work.

He has an h-index of 90 and 200,000 citations. He is not a professor.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago

A paper mill will produce a lot of papers.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am not following…how does he have so many papers with a high number of citations if he is not a professor? Just an extremely prolific postdoc/person on soft money?

[–] rf_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

He owns a paper mill, he games the system