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Ugh. Scientific journals are for archiving information, not embargoing news.

• dfc 11y ago
  The fact that you failed to even give lip service to peer review is strange maybe speaks to your understanding of professional science.
  • hueving 11y ago
    The fact that you think that's why people wait speaks to your naive view of how academia works. The only reason they are waiting and not releasing on a preprint like arxiv is because the journal wants to force all citations through them and will reject the paper if they see an early release. It's disgusting.
    • jldugger 11y ago
      Not really, the fact that it's not published is that they're afraid someone else will read it do the research again, submit it somewhere else, and get it published faster, at which point reviewers for $Journal_With_Actual_Impact_Factor will simply state "doesn't this replicate the recent findings? Rejected" Which is why rosalind sat on her crystallographies, hoping to figure it out herself. And why the Wellcome Trust requires academics publish all data within 6 months of collection in such ironclad language that even Elvisier has to honor it: https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/agreements/elsevier-agreement-with-the-wellcome-trust https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/agre...
    • dfc 11y ago
      Umm, I never said anything about why people wait. The comment/sentence I was replying to was about the purpose of Scientific journals.