Should we all publish fewer articles?

I dare ask the following question to the academic investigation community: Should we all publish fewer articles? With this proposition, I am not arguing that we all “relax”, but that we work more to ensure the publication of fewer articles, but of higher quality, with new and significant scientific insights, rather than reporting routine or incremental studies in a large number of articles. This is by no means a new problem for our time – the issue of salami roles has been known for a long time, and my editorial about “sandwich papers” also seemed to resonate with many readers. However, emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tools of generative and high -language models, such as chatgPT, are making this problem even more acute. With the help of such AI tools, seemingly reasonable research documents (both original and revisions investigation articles) can now be prepared very quickly (and are being developed right -wing). It is alarming that some research manuscripts have already been reviewed using these AI tools. So some of us probably trust AI to summarize research articles so we can read more articles faster. With all this happening, it is useless for us, terrestrial beings, to compete with AI machines to strive to generate more and more research articles. Instead, we should focus on doing what AI tools cannot do well: new creative, original and significant research work that really responds to some scientific questions and solve previously insoluble problems. As far as I can say, language AI tools (yet) have not been very good to face these challenges.

Check out the full article in English, published in the magazine AS Publications