Pressure From the Top
The post here last week about faked papers prompts me to mention this recent publication (which I learned about in Nature): an anonymous survey from inside several Chinese universities. It's quite interesting from that standpoint, and it shows that the Chinese institutions and authorities are indeed becoming worried about the increasing flood of low- (or zero-) quality papers that come from all sorts of Chinese sources. As everyone would have figured, this is a consequence of pressure to Publish, Publish, Publish, and Publish Some More:
