I was watching the psych replication crisis as it unfolded on Twitter, and was deeply freaked out for more than year. Post-adjustment I am vastly more skeptical, but my feel is that much academic research has been deeply flawed for decades. Paul Meehl was saying this in the 60's.
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Likely there has been steady deterioration on the decade scale due to the increasing demand for academic positions and grant funds, but the trend would depend on if/how you normalize for growth in academic research.
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In the absence of non-gamable success metric, the resume arms race results in ever higher quantity of ever more slapdash results.
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I recall that it is common in psych to have >10 journal papers by end of PhD. That is bonkers. For our robotics students, they have maybe 5-6 pubs, with 2 journal pubs.
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Interesting! I bet 10+ is indicative of low quality, but you can have garbage with low numbers. Eg, median number of career journal publications for PhD economists is zero
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