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No, they don't. Not unless you want to sabotage your own career. There is a limited set of journals for a specific area of science, and you need to publish in
by fabian2k 2y ago
No, they don't. Not unless you want to sabotage your own career.
There is a limited set of journals for a specific area of science, and you need to publish in the most reputable journal possible. There is only a very limited choice here in most cases.
- xhkkffbf 2y agoSo you're confirming that somehow the best publishers somehow manage to provide something of value. The people judging your career are the ones you're complaining about and somehow they're choosing to respect a few publishers. Instead of just imagining that Elsevier is somehow bad, you might ask yourself why these committees respect their journals so much. What are they doing that's right?
- fabian2k 2y agoIt's solely about prestige, and self-reinforcing.
- joe5150 2y agoDo you imagine the suits in Amsterdam are actually responsible for the quality of any given Elsevier journal? Most of the genuinely prestigious titles they publish were acquisitions. It is as clear an example of rent seeking as anyone can come up with.
- ClumsyPilot 2y ago> publishers somehow manage to provide something of value So do the Mexican drug cartels. does that mean they are good? Does that mean they are ‘free market’