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Re:How to be a scientist in a post-journal world by jleyank on Monday September 08, 2025 @03:59PM (#45173181)
S/N reduction. Without this, it will be impossible to wade through the flood of papers. Too easy to hemmorage them out anymore.
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Re:How to be a scientist in a post-journal world by sito42 on Monday September 08, 2025 @06:19PM (#45174793)
Author reputation and citation patterns provide plenty(?) of signal without journal/reviewer/editor endorsement. But you could still imagine introducing “badges” that provide similar additional signal to what publication in a top journal provides today. Academic societies issue a fixed number of badges to top preprints each year. But ditch the song and dance around peer review.
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Re:How to be a scientist in a post-journal world by gus_massa on Monday September 08, 2025 @09:12PM (#45176225)
> citation patterns provide plenty(?) of signal

There are self citations and citation rings. The signal is very week, even with the curren model.

> introducing “badges”

You reinvented journals.

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Re:How to be a scientist in a post-journal world by sito42 on Monday September 08, 2025 @09:35PM (#45176382)
> There are self citations and citation rings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenfactor and other such indices are much less game-able

Peer review (as currently practiced) and closed access are the problems, not the quality signal provided by journal publication.

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