Re:Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science
by oolonthegreat on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:28AM
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can someone explain to me why these multi billion dollar scientific publishing companies exist anyway? scientists write the papers and other scientists do the peer review, what does the company do? do they have a group of scientists on payroll to provide "high quality peer review" or something? what is the business model here?
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Re:Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science
by raxxorrax on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:44AM
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They were needed at some point. They did corrections and even peer reviews. Now it is just a lucrative enterprise.
But they sill serve as reference for how many papers someone published and how often someone gets referenced. The reputation of the journal is relevant as well. I think this worsens the replication crisis.