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Publishing is growing exponentially – While the number of scientists is also growing exponentially, it is at a slower rate than papers. We are producing more papers per scientist every year. This is a profoundly important fact. Every ecologist knows the power and unsustainability of exponential growth. This also makes it abundantly clear that the publishers only deserve half the blame. Scientists have created a Red Queen situation in which we’re aggressively chasing opportunities to publish. Do we really need 1,000,000 (about +40%) more publications than 10 years ago! (Figure 1).
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