I do some work in a certain field of digital signal processing. From time to time I look at the latest academic papers in that field and am always shocked by the poor quality. Probably 90% of the papers couldn't be repeated due to a lack of source code , the worse ones just have Simulink 'blocks' to illustrate the code. The techniques in this field used by industry for commercial products are never mentioned it's as if they exist on another planet. I can only presume anyone who knows what they are doing in this field works in industry while what remains in Universities have to produce a certain number of papers every year despite the quality. It really is a waste of everyones time and effort.
Indeed, during my undergrad I have seen the exact same behaviour with the Electrical Engineering faculty(at one of the most prestigious in the EMEA region). Most of the so called academical output from my department was hidden source code simulink visual spaghettis closed for scrutiny. It seemed to me as the profs spun out a web of lies out of EE jargon plus matlab blackboxes.
