Benoit Godin's paper "On the origin of bibliometrics"

[Stephen J Bensman]

Probably is a grammatical error.  At first I left it out, but then I
thought I'd better put it in, or otherwise it might just refer to scholars,
when I really think that the policy should affect both scientists and
scholars.  Scientists are the real problem, because their bad papers cost
much more to produce and publish.  Any real cost savings would have to come
at the expense of scientists.

SB






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That second comma is crucial - and deliberate?

Quentin

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  "Due to this, I always thought that perhaps a policy should be
instituted of sterilizing all scientists and scholars, who consistently
publish bad papers. "