There is a newspaper material explaining the above cited problem:
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ciencia/2017/10/1927163-brasil-aumenta-producao-cientifica-mas-impacto-dos-trabalhos-diminui.shtml
Can this be true?
Yes, the urgency to publish can lead to a decrease in relevance according to that article, which I translated to English using Google :)
Uncared proliferation of papers cannot be expected to be quality outputs. There might be citations but the comments would definitely not be good.
The assumption is that citation is "quality", which may not be true, right? Mathematically, more articles may mean more citations (even for bad articles) because one article can cite several others. I am intrigued by this.
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