Split publishing, also known as sausage paper, refers to dividing the content of a paper into multiple papers like cutting sausages to increase the number of papers. People often find this phenomenon. Someone published a paper on fuel composition A, a few weeks later a paper on fuel composition B, and a paper on fuel composition C a few weeks later. These papers look similar in format and content.
The purpose of split publishing is to expand insufficient scientific research results into many papers that look full. For example, because split publishing is to write the contents of 1 paper into three papers, it will inevitably lead to a large number of repetitions in the introduction, materials, methods and discussions of each paper. Although the specific sentence writing may be different, the basic meaning is similar.
Doctoral thesis can be divided into small papers and published. It is feasible to extract some contents from doctoral thesis and publish them as small papers, but the following points should be noted: (1) The separated contents should be relatively independent and publishable; The split small papers should be of high quality and can be published in core journals; The repetition rate of split small papers will not exceed the limit.
Characteristics of split publications
1. Repetition of content and format: Write the most papers with the fastest speed and the least cost, instead of honestly writing the original words sentence by sentence according to the findings and arguments. Therefore, volume publishing likes to use templates with similar or the same format, hoping to make papers as quickly as assembly line mechanized mass production, and I can't wait to fill in a few words and pictures in the template like filling in the blanks, and a paper will be made. Therefore, the style of "fast, energy-saving and similar" is obvious on the booklet paper.
2. Segmentation and combination of data and arguments: Due to the small amount of data, data and arguments are often not segmented in many papers. This will inevitably lead to three groups of data, A, B and C, which were originally completed at the same time, being artificially divided into three papers, each of which is irrelevant and not integrated. More importantly, after dividing the data and implementing various combinations, you can write the fourth to seventh papers, discussing the comparison between A and B, A and C, B and C, and A and B and C respectively.
3. Sparse lines: The third feature of volume publishing is that the pictures are deliberately sparse to occupy the layout and fill in the papers. It won't be crowded to draw all three groups of data A, B and C on the same screen, but it must be disassembled and drawn into seven screens (A, B, C, A and B, A and C, B and C, A and B and C), resulting in each screen being sparse.