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Researchers working in “publish or perish” cultures are incentivized to churn out as many papers as possible, pushing some to resort to unethical tactics such as buying publications from paper mills.

In the wake of recent high-profile misconduct claims, experts have drawn attention to a “publish or perish” culture in academia, which pressures researchers to generate striking results and place papers in major journals, whatever the merits of a study.

In academia, the aphorism "publish or perish" refers to this plight; and this perverse incentive forces researchers to compete for funding based on the number of articles they have published, prompting some to give prominence to insignificant results or distort them entirely.

The “publish or perish” pressure that institutions put on scientists is also an obstacle.

This reflects the perverse incentives of the “publish or perish” practices of science.