It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is

Re:It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientifi... by oefrha on Sunday October 31, 2021 @11:44PM (#29062803)

This is almost a textbook case of prisoner's dilemma, a psychology/game theory 101 student would know it isn't easy. Pretty shocking such a comically naive argument is upvoted to the top.

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Re:It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientifi... by canjobear on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:22AM (#29062970)

It's worse than a prisoner's dilemma. In a prisoner's dilemma, if both parties cooperate, then they get a higher joint reward. But when some academics cooperate to do something like make a new journal, they don't get any reward in terms of tenure/promotions, which depend 99% on publications in high quality venues as assessed by university-level entities and external reviewers.

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