Re:An Interview with Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan on the Del...
by refurb on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:58PM
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This! What the journals are selling is reputation.
The authors can choose to publish wherever they want - but there is value in publishing in Science, Nature. And their academic overlords acknowledge it too. Who gives a shit if a professor publishes a dozen papers in some obscure journal no one reads?
If you want to solve this issue stop violating the journals copyrights and start attacking the academic leaders who demand professors publish in them.
The authors can choose to publish wherever they want - but there is value in publishing in Science, Nature. And their academic overlords acknowledge it too. Who gives a shit if a professor publishes a dozen papers in some obscure journal no one reads?
If you want to solve this issue stop violating the journals copyrights and start attacking the academic leaders who demand professors publish in them.