I wonder whether this also has the reverse effect: that publishing your work behind a paywall in an Elsevier journal will hurt your impact, because fewer resear

I wonder whether this also has the reverse effect: that publishing your work behind a paywall in an Elsevier journal will hurt your impact, because fewer researchers will read it. In my opinion, it's these incentives that are the problem. The main reason researchers keep going for the same paywalled (or high publishing fee-) journals is because they need to list the stamp of approval of its brand name on their CV. Fewer readers makes that brand name less valuable. That said, I don't think that will be enough. The world needs to transition to another way of evaluating research that does not depend on where they publish. (Disclosure: I'm working on such a system [1]. You can help by installing the extension [2]!) [1] https://plaudit.pub/ https://plaudit.pub/ [2] https://plaudit.pub/extension/ https://plaudit.pub/extension/