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Simple proposal then… we the academic paper consuming community need to start considering Elsevier journals as not prestigious. If you’re involved in any academ
by techdragon 4y ago
Simple proposal then… we the academic paper consuming community need to start considering Elsevier journals as not prestigious. If you’re involved in any academic hiring then you are absolutely ducking responsible for perpetuating their power if you don’t push back however you can on the assumption that these journals are somehow more prestigious based entirely on their past history.
It won’t happen overnight but unless we change the assumption that these journals are special then we will never truly take back the power from Elsevier.
- dredmorbius 4y agoBut who should bell the cat? https://satibal.com/cat-mouse-and-bell-story/ https://satibal.com/cat-mouse-and-bell-story/ What perpetuates the prestigous-journal practice are review and hiring committees, often swayed by journals themselves through various means, which hold the true power. Changing institutions, particularly academic ones, is difficult. Far more often, splinter groups are formed. Schism at Balognia resulted in Padua. Schism at Oxford resulted in Cambridge. I believe there may have been a similar dynamic between Harvard and Yale. Arguably the same might be said of Harvard's failure to cultivate an engineering curriculum, and hence M.I.T. Though it might be interesting to look at academic disciplines and institutions and identify which are most controlled by journals. I suspect business, medicine, and law would be near the top of such a list.