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Note that the peer reviewers doing the work are unpaid volunteers, the people receiving the money are just middlemen.
by jjk166 4y ago
Note that the peer reviewers doing the work are unpaid volunteers, the people receiving the money are just middlemen.
- trevcanhuman 4y agoI've heard this definitely more than I like, but is there evidence that this is true ?
- anigbrowl 4y agoJust go on academic twitter and ask, you will get a torrent of sob stories. Everyone hates the journal industry but nobody knows how to overturn it. Every so often a group in some field bands together and gets a new open-access journal going (good) but then that has to run for several years and feature heavyweight papers before it can compete with the incumbent, and it's a lot of work while making much less money.