Although institutional affiliation is not mandatory in scholarly publishing, a new trend of multiple and simultaneous affiliations, which I will 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 are, in turn, used as a hallmark of productivity, influence, visibility and reputation of their affiliations 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, would be hardly realistic.

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八达通的附属机构

尽管学术出版中的机构隶属关系不是强制性的，但作为学术排名和评估系统扭曲的结果，一种新的多重和同时隶属关系（我将其简称为“章鱼隶属关系”或“octaffiliations”）的新趋势越来越引人注目。机构为作者提供财政和/或技术支持，而作者的贡献反过来被用作生产力、影响力、知名度和其所属机构在国家和国际层面的声誉的标志。虽然作者可以同时隶属于一个或两个机构是可以理解的，但另一方面，同时隶属于多个机构是不现实的。