nostr:npub1u0rdjg6ckay8y94pkj884uhmeal89v2l0cw9dpauw2dsp0c2a5tsns92zh I believe it is harmful, because it amplifies the "rich get richer" effect - once you made it to a certain level, your papers just "flow".

There are manager professors and scientist professors. You can't know if a PI is only good at writing proposals or good at the science. There are enough examples how certain characters like to overblow their role in some discovery, because their name is on the papers.

Encoding this kind of information in the author's list equates different things.