Addressing the weighty concerns highlighted in the previous discussion titled "Consortia’s Mafia Dons," it's imperative to examine the proposal outlined below, presented by a distinguished professor from UCL. In an article penned by an Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at UCL, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, a bold proposition is put forth to tackle the prevalent issue of publication overload within the scientific community. Professor Uta Frith advocates for a paradigm shift towards what she terms as "slow science":
“When
many successful scientists boast dozens, even hundreds, of research papers
to their name, calls for more “quality over quantity” in publication can appear
to ring rather hollow. Now a former president of the British Science
Association has suggested a radical proposal to combat this
problem: restricting
researchers to just one scholarly paper a year. Calling for a “slow
science” revolution, Uta Frith, emeritus professor of cognitive development at
UCL, said a new consensus about “doing less but better” was needed to address
the “information overload” created by the relentless pressure to
publish”Writing in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Professor Frith says
it is time to “ask ourselves what good does the glut of fast-appearing
publications do for science”, particularly as publication output would be
“swelled in the future by reports of null results and replication failures…The
most provocative of my suggestions is to drastically restrict…the number
of papers anyone can publish per year" https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/restrict-researchers-one-paper-ayear-says-ucl-professor
