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Outside of academia I don't think anyone realizes just how broken the system is. Citation extortion rings are part of every journal. I had a reviewer from Natu

Outside of academia I don't think anyone realizes just how broken the system is. Citation extortion rings are part of every journal. I had a reviewer from Nature give feedback that I should cite her co-authors work on a topic that had nothing to do with my paper. It got rejected because I wouldn't. It went into archive and has been cited nearly a hundred times now. To add insult to injury Nature News asked to interview me about my work. Some more info on the subject, and a vast underestimation of how prevalent it is: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/cite-my-papers-else https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/cite-my-papers-els... At this point if you can figure out how to make a pdf paper using latex I consider your work to be on par with anything in a journal.

rokkitmensch 3y ago
I'm a layman surrounded by laypeople and we regularly make fun of peer review. It's far from insider baseball, and verging on reality tv for a small but growing segment of the shitposting nihilistic demo.
DrNosferatu 3y ago
"Citation Extortion Rings" - I can relate to that: The head of the jury for my thesis defense had no shame in opening complaining in the public defense session: "I am THE authority in the field [never had heard of the guy before], why the hell you didn't come to me!?" The project had already been international award-winning, but then the thesis about it (from the single author) received a bad grade.