All 12 papers had one thing in common: Brian M Lucey, Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin — the #1 ranked economics and business school in Ireland — as a co-author.
Lucey published 56 papers in 2025, one paper every 6.5 days. Lmao.
Lucey has published 44 papers in Finance Research Letters alone, an Elsevier journal he edited.
What a shitbird.
People get put on as co-authors for relatively minor contributions. Being coauthor on a lot of papers doesn't mean much.
The second part is the actual problem.
Regulate the publishing industry! Start with Elsevier and NPG
Small typo there, your autocorrect misspelled 'burn down' as 'regulate'.
In the deep dark reaches of the mists of time I once mused on entering the life of an academic. I didn’t think I would enjoy the inevitable regular tsunamis of bullshit. I was not wrong.
Chris Brunet is a cunt
Elaborate.
He thinks putting pronouns in your email signature is "Nazi state control", but being in a porno or doing drugs means it's ok for cops to kneel on your neck.
The cognitive dissonance is palpable.
Fair play, that is some See You In Tears behavior.
Just not especially relevant to this long-in-coming call-out.
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dart board;; science bs
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