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No scientific journal of any repute pays its authors. Or reviewers. Authors (more precisely, the grants we get to do our research in academia, or our employers
by hprotagonist 8y ago
No scientific journal of any repute pays its authors. Or reviewers.
Authors (more precisely, the grants we get to do our research in academia, or our employers in industry) pay the journal for the privilege of publishing there, and offer our services as reviewers for brownie points.
- ghaff 8y agoTBH though, for the most part, authors of tech books don't really make meaningful money either. Writing is something you do for some combination of personal satisfaction, extension to day job, or personal brand building. And tech reviewers of those books (and reviewers of proposals) may be paid, but it isn't much. None of this should be taken to suggest that there aren't issues with the scientific journal model but lack of author payments is probably not one of them.
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- fwip 8y agoYou might even argue that helps protect the integrity of the journals. If journals paid authors for published papers, there would be a greater incentive for an author to tweak/falsify data to make the conclusions stronger, the paper more exciting, and more attractive to publishers.
- hprotagonist 8y agowe have this perverse incentive, but it’s located at a different place in the chain: the grant agencies.