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Although institutional affiliation is not mandatory in scholarly publishing, a new trend of multiple and simultaneous affiliations, which I'll call "octopus affiliations" or "octaffiliations" in short, is increasingly noticeable as a distorted consequence of academic ranking and evaluation systems. Institutions offer financial and/or technical supports to authors whose contributions in turn are used as a hallmark of productivity, influence, visibility and reputation of their institutions at national and international levels. While it is understandable that an author can be affiliated with one or two institutions at a time, multiple and simultaneous affiliations on the other hand are hardly realistic.

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  • Moustafa, Khaled, 2020. "Octopus affiliations," arabixiv.org 2wz96, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:arabix:2wz96
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/2wz96
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