Scientific papers are for a scientist to share his/her research with other scientists so they can improve and contribute to science.
Prof. Ioannidis in Nature wrote “Authorship is the coin of scholarship — and some researchers are minting a lot.”
A new research reveals that papers by the most prolific authors were more likely to be accepted for publication within 3 weeks of their submission.
“A few authors, often members of the editorial board, were responsible for a disproportionate number of publications. “
Can a scientist publish a paper in 3 days?
Prof Ioannidis mentioned hyperprolific authors publish a paper every five days. We have at least two professors who have shortened the time by publishing a paper within 2–3 days. AND they get highly cited within 1–2 weeks.
Prof. Yong Sik OK and DCW Tsang have published 100–120 papers a year continuously since 2017, and continually have 10–30 highly cited papers per year. Several examples reveal Jörg Rinklebe an associate of OK, acts as editor for the papers by OK and Tsang.
Hyperprolific Author Yong Sik OK
Since 2017, Prof Yong Sik OK from Korea university has published more than 600 papers AND has 90 Highly cited papers with an impressive h index of 91.
OK continuously publishes 96 to 120 papers per year. Each year Clarivate awards OK 12–29 new highly cited papers.
This means Prof OK published a paper within 3–4 days (fully peer reviewed) and within 1–2 weeks he receives 1 highly cited paper. That is including weekend and holidays. An impressive but implausible achievement.
For this brilliant achievement, Clarivate has awarded Prof OK:
-Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology — 2021
-Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Engineering — 2021
Prof Ok has written 431 papers on Elsevier journals. Elsevier publishes 80 papers per year written by OK. Even now as I write in November 2021, OK already published 11 papers in 2022. OK is editor of several Elsevier Journals.
Can One write a paper in 2–3 days and get highly cited within 2 weeks?
OK currently has 90 highly cited papers. Compared to Nobel Laureate in medicine Pataputian A who only had 11 highly cited papers and h index of 71.
DCW Tsang
Prof Daniel Tsang has a very busy schedule, he writes a paper every 2 days, reviews 1 paper per day, and gets highly cited every 2 weeks without any weekend break and holidays.
Another of OK’s protégé and collaborator is Prof Daniel CW Tsang from Hong Kong, shared 166 papers with OK.
DCW TSANG last year produced 145 papers according to Clarivate. He writes a paper every 2 days, with no weekend and no holiday. Prof Tsang also a prolific reviewer for journals, reviewing 1 paper a day.
Prof Tsang has a very busy schedule, writes a paper every 2 days, reviews 1 paper per day, and gets highly cited every 2 weeks.
Daniel Tsang is awarded
- Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology — 2021
- Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Engineering — 2021
According to Clarivate, Prof Tsang also reviews 20–30 papers per month. For this he was awarded
- Top reviewers in Cross-Field — September 2019
- Top reviewers in Chemistry — September 2019
- Top reviewers in Biology and Biochemistry — September 2019
- Top handling editors — September 2019
- Top reviewers in Environment and Ecology — September 2019
- Top reviewers in Engineering — September 2019
Jörg Rinklebe
Prof. Jörg Rinklebe from Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany coauthors 101 papers with OK.
Rinklebe published already 80 papers before the end of 2021 and already have published 12 papers in 2022. Clarivate awarded him 42 Highly Cited Papers. Rinklebe is:
- Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology — 2021
- Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology — 2020
- Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field — 2019
Good Papers
This paper authored by the trio has 50 self citations to OK and Rinklebe
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412019311250
OK’s paper in Journal of Hazardous Materials were frequently handeled by Jörg Rinklebe:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389421023785
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389421019919
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389421018896
Can you publish a paper in 3 days and get highly cited within 2 weeks?
yes, you can if you work hard
Prof Ioannidis raises the question what entails authorship:
“The US National Institutes of Health, for example, has guidelines on the activities that qualify: actively supervising, designing and doing experiments, and data acquisition and analysis outside “very basic” work plus drafting the manuscript. Collecting funds or distant mentorship do not qualify.
The Vancouver criteria established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors in 1988 said authors must do all of four things to qualify: play a part in designing or conducting experiments or processing results; help to write or revise the manuscript; approve the published version; and take responsibility for the article’s contents.”
Hyperprolific authors might be the most energetic scientists who don’t sleep and have a break.
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