@alexwild The elephant in the room is "if there are -big name- co-authors on a paper or not". If all the authors are relatively obscure/lesser-known names in their respective field(s), nobody is going to take their science seriously (no matter how groundbreaking or robust). And if so, these papers will get cited on merit, *if* they really must be cited, and *if* someone has been able to reproduce the findings. With information overload, the value of individual papers tanks substantially. Sorry!