An excellent article and a really important issue. I think academia in Australia is a bit of a test case of the 'corporate university'. Here, we have a very cut-throat situation where people slice-and-dice their research into the smallest possible packages for publishing. Sure, it takes it's own kind of skill to achieve this. Nevertheless, in a system in which the ultimate underlying is dollars (let's face it, this is what lies beneath all the other 'surface' metrics), we will find abuse, falsification, plagiarism, and other unethical practices. Thanks for bringing up the issue.
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