Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ...
by masklinn on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @05:42AM
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> If Elsevier is so terrible, and everybody hates them, how is it possible that it's so hard to move away from them?
They own the high IF journals, which scientists need to publish to in order to get cred'.
It's a chicken and egg problem, scientists can't move to OA journals until these provide the high IF they need to get cred' but OA journals can't get high IF without high impact articles being published in them, which requires paying Elsevier huge fees so you can publish in both.
They own the high IF journals, which scientists need to publish to in order to get cred'.
It's a chicken and egg problem, scientists can't move to OA journals until these provide the high IF they need to get cred' but OA journals can't get high IF without high impact articles being published in them, which requires paying Elsevier huge fees so you can publish in both.