To expand on what the parent said, what makes it weird that the incentives for people in the community are mixed: there are market incentives (mainly publishers

To expand on what the parent said, what makes it weird that the incentives for people in the community are mixed: there are market incentives (mainly publishers), community incentive (reviews and volunteer expert work), resume incentives (pubs in top journals). They interact in weird and sometimes toxic ways. (Disclaimer: comfortably funded post doc here)