I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?

Re:I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go? by Vinnl on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:04AM (#25927197)

Because nobody reads it there and, more importantly, funders don't recognise the work you've done there. The "prestige" (as indicated by the scientific-looking but mostly inaccurate "Impact Factor") of the journal you publish in determines how good they think your work is.

I wrote about that a while ago here: https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...

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Re:I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go? by DarkWiiPlayer on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:16AM (#25927294)

> Because nobody reads it there

That's a problem that would fix itself the moment most useful research was mainly available on such platforms.

> more importantly, funders don't recognise the work you've done there

Once again, that sounds like mostly a problem that would disappear if a large migration to open platforms was to happen.

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So it seems the main poroblem seems to be that there's no incentive to be among the first to make the move? IIRC it's often the journals that don't want content to be published elsewhere, so I guess just doing both is also not that simple.

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Re:I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go? by Vinnl on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:43PM (#25931236)

Yep exactly, it's a classic coordination problem.

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