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>We spend much time perfecting irrelevant papers to get them through peer review. Maybe stop publishing irrelevant papers? Admitted, academia has serious probl
by rubidium 16y ago
>We spend much time perfecting irrelevant papers to get them through peer review.
Maybe stop publishing irrelevant papers? Admitted, academia has serious problems. The solution isn't open source though.
Building a collaborative framework around research would be great, but solidarity and small group research will continue to be the primary drivers of innovative research.
- jorleif 16y agoAcademics can't stop publishing irrelevant papers, since funding is granted based on publication history. To get really novel things done researchers must keep a steady stream of publications. This is easiest achieved by making somewhat easy, incremental research to a large part. This incentive, or even rather selection, problem is, I think the core reason for this ancient publishing model.