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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by j7ake on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:04AM (#30084534)
The prestige provides access to jobs/promotions, invitations to talks, and higher scores on grants. The tangible benefits are more than $10k.

Not saying this is right, but nothing will change until scientists stop ranking other scientists by the number of publications in prestigious journals/conferences.

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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by oefrha on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:46AM (#30085266)
Other than inertia and prisoner’s dilemma, there’s zero reason a cheap journal can’t be equally prestigious. The bloodsucking big academic publishers contribute approximately zero to science for what they charge compared to a Gowers-style journal run by the same editors and reviewers.
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