• gi1242@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1141·
    6 months ago

    academic journals now only provide a service to authors. they used to distribute… but the articles are available free on the arxiv, pubmed, authors websites, etc. the peer review and typesetting journals do is a joke and no author will pay for that.

    the value journals have now is mainly to the author, because the prestige of getting accepted by the journal helps with the authors career. publishers figured out that authors will pay for this, so here we are … 🙄

    • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
      431·
      6 months ago

      I used to have trust in the peer review process, thinking this is why it takes months or years for a paper to get published. Are you telling me it’s not real?

      • gi1242@lemmy.worldEnglish
        57·
        6 months ago

        iwriting reviews is time consuming, unpaid, and doesn’t help the reviewers career. so it takes a while because reviewers are already busy and don’t prioritize writing reviews too much.

        quality of the reviews is questionable. 10% of the reviews are through and provide valuable feedback. the remaining 90% are cursory “yeah this is interesting, publish it” or “not interesting/outside scope”.

        very very few reviews find and report scientific errors

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    6 months ago

    That expression is hilarious. What’s the name of the template?

    • flyos@jlai.luEnglish
      16·
      6 months ago

      Some people did, look up the Peer Community Journal. Backed up by more and more organisations.

    • gi1242@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      there are plenty of low cost open access journals run by nonprofits and professional societies. however junior researchers when building their reputation try and publish in journals that are as prestigious as possible, without worrying about cost, apc, open access etc.