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Isn'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.
by V__ 3y ago
Isn'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.