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Academia is the source of a lot of the world’s basic knowledge.
In this really interesting piece two academics analysed a database of 120 million academic publications from 25 million authors.
They found some very interesting conclusions.
Papers have become shorter, while features that attract readers – like titles and abstracts – have gotten longer (academic clickbait).
There is a huge increase in new authors and they publish at a much faster rate (see chart).
Overall these results support Goodhart’s law – any measure will eventually become a target.