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Nicholas Polson credited with 258 papers this year
Original: Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)
A statistical blog has tallied 258 academic papers authored or co-authored by Nicholas Polson in 2026 so far, a figure readers are reacting to as extraordinarily high for a single researcher. Commenters are debating whether the count reflects genuine productivity, prolific co-authorship networks, or inflated publication practices common in quantitative finance and machine learning.
Why now: The sheer number of papers attributed to one academic in under a year strikes people as implausible and raises questions about co-authorship and publishing norms.
Nicholas PolsonStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (blog)
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