> It would be a scam, except academics could easily disrupt it and they (mostly) choose not to. Oh really? Tell me more about how I can publish in journals wit

> It would be a scam, except academics could easily disrupt it and they (mostly) choose not to. Oh really? Tell me more about how I can publish in journals with low or nonexistanet (conventional) impact factors and still meet my department’s promotion criteria, or convince an NIH review panel that my publication has high impact, visibility, and citation metrics. Your post presupposes that the solution is so simple when in fact the whole system is perversely incentivized, tragedy of the commons style, and that there isn’t some game theory all locking us in to place.