There are only 141 HCRs that have
at least 100 confirmed reviews
they are not into editorial activities also because there are only 18 HCRs who have at least 100 confirmed editorial records https://publons.com/researcher/?hcr=1&order_by=verified_editor_records
It seems that what they love to do is to publish, publish, publish and publish again because there are 227 HCRs who have at least 700 ISI indexed publications. Owen Petchey and Jeremy Fox defined them as“cheats” for co-authoring hundreds of papers without doing proportionate reviewing but I think that the accurate term is parasites.
Also this not the best way to tackle the deluge publication which is mentioned in the paper below
"Scientific production is
steadily growing, exhibiting 4% annual growth in publications…science has
become stifled by a publication deluge destabilizing the
balance between production and consumption....an increasing focus on production
over consumption also means that researchers will spend...less time reading and
digesting the literature"
Not to mention that since now
"More than 40 per cent of global R&D is now performed by just 200
companies" https://sciencebusiness.net/news/governments-risk-losing-control-over-direction-technology-research-oecd-warns that
means Academia has a special duty to ensure the publications generated by
corporate researchers are helping science instead of helping to destroy it. On
this issue see below the cases of research fraud by Theranos and Monsanto:
“High‐valuation companies that publish
little or nothing in the peer‐reviewed literature may still have patents related to their
products… However, patents do not offer the same level of documentation as peer‐reviewed articles. For example,
Theranos had over 100 patents, but....when a team of investigators used the
Theranos technology to run 22 common lab tests versus the same tests run with
other companies’ technologies, the problematic error rates became
manifest...” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eci.13072
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/monsanto-papers-reveal-company-covered-up-cancer-concerns-a-1174233.html
