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> Many hiring decisions in academia still rely strongly on the reputation of journals where applicants published. Maybe there could be a policy of only countin
by cabalamat 9y ago
> Many hiring decisions in academia still rely strongly on the reputation of journals where applicants published.
Maybe there could be a policy of only counting articles in open-access journals.
> It's also the primary reason why researchers don't boycott these journals: most of them are simply not in a position where they can afford to without seriously damaging their career prospects.
Then that's where the log-jam is.
- Vinnl 9y ago> Maybe there could be a policy of only counting articles in open-access journals. Unfortunately it's not a policy, it's the easy option for those evaluating scientist, which is why they do it. Sometimes there's a policy to ignore the reputation (or actually, the flawed metric that's supposed to represent it called "Impact Factor"), but that's not widespread. Academics unfortunately have more to concern themselves with than spreading Open Access.