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And yet, they keep publishing in these journals? Yes, yes, I know, publish or perish, prestige, impact factor, yada-yada. I’ve just imagined for a second what
by azangru 8y ago
And yet, they keep publishing in these journals?
Yes, yes, I know, publish or perish, prestige, impact factor, yada-yada. I’ve just imagined for a second what it would be like if the rhetoric and activism of left-leaning staff on campus that is talked about so much were directed at fighting unequal access to knowledge. It sounded so good in my head; the rhetorical techniques fit so beautifully.
- fabian2k 8y agoThey don't really have a choice. Your publication record is the most important factor you're judged by, and that determines your chances to become a professor and to continue to earn grant money to do some science. If you have the option to publish in Nature or Science, you have to take it. Or you will stunt or kill your career.
- azangru 8y ago> If you have the option to publish in Nature or Science, you have to take it. That’s because it is currently your own decision as an individual. But if the left mobilized their forces to shame those who publish in these journals like they shamed, oh, I don't know, Niall Ferguson for having an "all-male history conference” — oh how the arithmetic will change :-)