Ask HN: Why does academia still publish in for-profit journals?

Re:Ask HN: Why does academia still publish in for-profit jou... by jldugger on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:30AM (#14634532)

For better or worse, tenure evaluations are a crazy important part of academic life in the US. You have roughly five years to produce enough research of a high enough quality to earn the right to keep doing said research.

The three common metrics for evaluating are:

1. citations -- highly cited papers are evidence of contributing to academic society

2. impact factor -- papers published in highly selective journals that peer reviews submissions are considered better

3. money -- AFAIK nobody says this out loud, but if your department can't bring in revenue to support you and your researchers, your tenure case is on thin ice.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does academia still publish in for-profit jou... by ferdterguson on Monday June 26, 2017 @10:05AM (#14636872)

In my field, if you get a TT position and play nice, you usually get tenure. But yeah - it's basically all about money. You can't do good research if you don't have solid funding, you don't get solid funding unless you have good research in high impact journals.

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