Salami publishing: Walking on thin (sl)ice.

The author discusses the Salami publishing in which "salami" refers to a type of cured sausage consisting of fermented meat cut into thin slices when served. He explains that "salami slicing" as the breaking up of the results of a single research project into multiple papers where each page represents the slice and scattered into multiple journals as manuscripts of varying sizes. He states that Salami or segmented publication is where different papers from the same data set are published.