‘Tedious’ conferences dominated by authors with multiple papers

"While this over-representation could be a natural result of an organiser being particularly active in their field, the paper says, it could also indicate that organisers get their work 'fast-tracked' into their conferences through their 'gatekeeping role'. " On a related theme, substitute 'editors and coteries' for 'organisers, and 'journals' for 'conferences'.

This is another sign of the endemic corruption eating away at the once noble pursuit of knowledge that informed our research. It is dispiriting to see the conference sector being gamed so that the aim is to bolster the bloated CVs of non academic dissembled. No doubt, the delights of back to back AI generated bilge await future conference attendees

Conferences are very expensive to attend and take a lot of time. If I can, I try and put in at least two abstracts to make the most of the opportunity. When I've been fortunate enough to be on the organising committee, I see it as important to also present my work if I can. Why wouldn't I submit an abstract when I'm already going? I've also had conferences where most of a team or dept go, which is lovely. Then there might be like eight posters with the same last author, with posters/talks presented by their various PhD students and postdocs. I'm not sure this is really a big problem.