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Well you don't need to go through the gate keeping mechanism, you can just publish a blog. The gate keeping mechanism is like a web of trust that retain only th
by pca006132 4y ago
Well you don't need to go through the gate keeping mechanism, you can just publish a blog. The gate keeping mechanism is like a web of trust that retain only those that are considered valuable in the community, so researchers can have a bounded number of articles to read, at least this is what I think.
- lazide 4y agoIt's exactly the same problem 'web of trust' has though - incentives for the gate keepers are NOT aligned with accuracy necessarily.
- pca006132 4y agoYeah, but I think the problem is not really in the web of trust but in the incentive for researchers. If we are still stuck in this publish or perish trend, even if we replace those publishers with journals based on 'open communities', this kind of things will still happen. However, if we abandon the use of such indices (H-index, citation count, whatever), what should we use to evaluate grant applications? Sales pitch like startups asking for VC money? I don't know, I think the system is problematic but I can't really think of something else that is feasible.