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> but there's no incentive to do the hard work to correct mistakes if your paper is already on arxiv and people are already citing it Peer reviewing is essenti
by dandanua 5y ago
> but there's no incentive to do the hard work to correct mistakes if your paper is already on arxiv and people are already citing it
Peer reviewing is essential, of course. But note that in most journals reviewers are not getting paid. They have even less incentives to find mistakes in your work than you are. I have no idea how such an utterly broken system emerged, where journals siphon billions of tax money exploiting the work of scientists.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoThe incentive to freely review others' work is that others will also freely review your work. This is quite separate than the exploitative aspects of the big scientific publishers. Reviewers are certainly exploited by publishers, because publishers make money from reviewers' free work. But reviewers would do the work for free anyway because that's what they expect others to do.