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It's inescapable. 40 years ago, when articles went into print publications, you'd just get your paper into a key print journal and then trust that everyone who
by mumblemumble 3y ago
It's inescapable.
40 years ago, when articles went into print publications, you'd just get your paper into a key print journal and then trust that everyone who gets it would at least look through the article headlines and read the abstracts of articles that seemed relevant to them. And it was manageable because you'd only have a few new issues rolling in per month.
But arXiv had an average of 167 CS papers being submitted per day in 2021. An academic who wants to keep their career alive needs to resort to every trick in the book to be heard above that din.
- V__ 3y agoIsn't this more a problem of not good enough curation? There are more papers now than ever, but the signal is probably getting worse and worse.
- mumblemumble 3y agoHow does one, practically speaking, curate article publication in a world with arXiv? Curation kind of requires gatekeepers, and good gatekeeping is a full-time job that needs to be paid for. In the days of print journals, there was both a motivation, because you can only print so many articles per month due to materials costs, and a steady revenue stream to pay for it, because everyone has to pay for the journals to get any access to articles at all. The Internet's been eroding both of those factors for a good quarter century now.
- cultofmetatron 3y agohmm. sounds like a good use case for the chatgpt api