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Re:A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture by woofie11 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @05:50AM (#26212472)
It varies field-by-field. In my field, peer review is a joke. I'm glad it's not a joke in your field yet, but incentive structures say it eventually will be. If incentives don't change, it's a question of when, not if.
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Re:A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture by andi999 on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:42AM (#26225040)
What incentive structures? When I get a paper for review, I do my (time limited) best. Which incentive will change me?
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Re:A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture by woofie11 on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:09AM (#26226116)
Academic hiring and promotion.

High-quality academic curation doesn't effect anything in your career. On the other hand, the impact of your own research does does affect it. I'd like my taxpayer dollars to go a little less towards publish-or-perish, and a little more towards QA to make sure the papers coming out are credible.

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