I should have added: healthcare. No shit IBM research has publications, they have their own journal. Also, 15 publications in 3 years is pathetic. c'mon

Well, the operational people will struggle to publish because it won't be on their scorecard, so effectively they won't be paid for it. Additionally many of them won't have any skills relevant to creating an academic publication and no nice professor to help them do it. So if IBM are going to publish it will be their lab.

In terms of publication rates, in universities it's a mill. All academics are measured on publication impact and because of the arbitrary and self reinforcing nature of impact the way to win is to sprinkle as many papers around as you can get your graduate student factory as you possibly can. The question is what is the actual utility of minting out the same paper with nine different authors?