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Damming. What is research even becoming at this stage? I hope open peer review is the golden bullet here, since the paid journals are clearly struggling under t
by tetris11 3y ago
Damming. What is research even becoming at this stage? I hope open peer review is the golden bullet here, since the paid journals are clearly struggling under the deluge of AI spam
- TimTheTinker 3y agoIt's not that they're struggling, it's that by and large they don't care. They're making money from publishing scientific papers (or whatever they can be called), and that's all that matters.
- qwertyuiop_ 3y agohow does this model work ? the students and professors get paid by journals to publish papers?
- kettleballroll 3y agoN. Usually THE AUTHOR pays the journal to publish anything. However, the professors need publications for their CV (number of published articles is a very important metric in the academic world), to acquire new funds ("give us money to do research on topic X. Look at how much we published on this related topic before, we clearly know what we're doing") or advance in their career (ASA function of the former two points). Students need publications as part of their graduation requirements (in a lot of fields, you are required to have N publications in a peer reviewed venue to get your PhD). So in both cases, you don't make money directly from publications, but from the prestige they bring and the credibility they're associated with ("this guy must be an expert on X, because they published on the topic").