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There are two points that I wished were addressed more often. 1. New researchers. The examples he mentions include researchers who were already important in th
by probably_wrong 9y ago
There are two points that I wished were addressed more often.
1. New researchers. The examples he mentions include researchers who were already important in the field, and whose prestige guarantees review. But if you're a new researcher, good luck getting noticed. Blind review doesn't have this problem.
2. The cost of journals. People say "journal" and think of Elsevier, but there are several journals and conferences that publish all papers for free. The ACL, the largest conference on computational linguistics, finances itself with the entry fee to their conference, and you can read all of their papers right now (disclaimer: I'm currently doing work for them). There is a middle ground between Elsevier and Arxiv.
- femto 9y agoOne way to look at journals are that they are "ready made" reputation for those without their own. A new author can leverage the reputation of the journal to establish their own reputation. On that basis, maybe the mark of a truly prestigious researcher is one who can post directly to arXiv? Rather than the highest accolade being for a paper in Nature, the highest accolade should be for a widely reviewed paper on arXiv?