Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoPaul Erdős found an exploit in the end game. All you have to do, is collaborate with everyone you come across. It doesn’t even matter how small your role is in each paper as long as your name appears somewhere in it.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Another exploit is to start your own journal and “publish” shit-tons of your own papers. When I was in grad school I was involved in evaluating potential new professor hires. One guy’s entire CV (which was massive) consisted of papers published in journals that he was editor and founder of. He probably would have gotten away with it except that he also listed his editorship of these journals in his CV – like, we didn’t even have to do any research to expose it.
Amazingly enough his application was not immediately tossed out, and he was even flown in for an interview. That is modern Anthropology for you.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Here’s another exploit. You and your academic buddies could each have their own Journal and use them for publishing without any suspicious traces leading back to you. Let’s say Sally starts SPLAT, the Studies in Pointless but Laughable Academic Topics. Nelly starts NOPE, the Journal of Nonsensical Observations an Preposterous Experiments. Meanwhile Pete starts POOP, the Proceedings of Outlandish and Outrageous Postulations.
Nelly can be an editor of SPLAT, while Pete can publish all his papers there. Likewise, Pete would be an editor of NOPE and Sally can publish her papers there. Finally, Sally would be an editor of POOP and Nelly would publish her papers that way. It’s a happy love triangle where everyone wins.