摘要：With the push for professionalization and performativity of academics (Debowski, 2012), the performance of academics all over the world is being measured by their publications, assuming that published research reflects professionalization. This pressure results in the increas ing number of publications. A report from Nature re_x005f?vealed that in 2018, the number of published scientific papers hit an all-time high, with some countries show ing an improvement of 15–20% of research output (Ma?kri, 2018). However, Adler and Harzing (2009) warn us that the increasing number of publications may not re flect the rise of meaningful research. It may induce the likelihood of false positives and come at the cost of ac?curacy of research (Munafo et al., 2017). Sarawitz (2016) even goes as far as saying that the pressure to publish destroys the quality of research just as cancer terminates a living cell.
