El Duvelle on Nostr: nprofile1q…ruc38 I always appreciate how clearly you manage to explain this stuff! ...
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What would you say is our best way to get out of the current system?
Provide a "non-profit" way of ranking journals? Maybe that has already been tried..
Most researchers I talk to are convinced they need to publish in "top journals" to survive, get grants, promotions, students etc. They don't do it for any (direct) scientific purpose, just from these "exteriorised" pressures. I'm sure most of them would rather support non-profits if everything else was equal but that comes as a secondary motivation.
If there were more "top" but non-profit journals, researchers could fulfill both incentives at the same time by publishing there and eventually all the for-profits would become useless. I guess that's what eLife is trying to do. Now a lot of researchers I know are reluctant to publish there, mostly since they've been using their "no rejection" new system. How could that have worked better?
I know that for-profits have been doing their best to maintain and reinforce the current system and it's obviously hard to fight against that but knowing all this.. what can we do right now to get not just a few researchers but all of us out?
#Academia #ScientificPublishing
What would you say is our best way to get out of the current system?
Provide a "non-profit" way of ranking journals? Maybe that has already been tried..
Most researchers I talk to are convinced they need to publish in "top journals" to survive, get grants, promotions, students etc. They don't do it for any (direct) scientific purpose, just from these "exteriorised" pressures. I'm sure most of them would rather support non-profits if everything else was equal but that comes as a secondary motivation.
If there were more "top" but non-profit journals, researchers could fulfill both incentives at the same time by publishing there and eventually all the for-profits would become useless. I guess that's what eLife is trying to do. Now a lot of researchers I know are reluctant to publish there, mostly since they've been using their "no rejection" new system. How could that have worked better?
I know that for-profits have been doing their best to maintain and reinforce the current system and it's obviously hard to fight against that but knowing all this.. what can we do right now to get not just a few researchers but all of us out?
#Academia #ScientificPublishing