More importantly, prestige journals gateway career advancement, and in some cases, degree attainment, within numerous disciplines. This is covered extensively

More importantly, prestige journals gateway career advancement, and in some cases, degree attainment, within numerous disciplines. This is covered extensively by advocates including Tim Gowers (maths) and Bjoern Brembs, both of whom blog heavily: <https://gowers.wordpress.com/category/Elsevier/ https://gowers.wordpress.com/category/Elsevier/> <https://bjoern.brembs.net/tag/open-access/ https://bjoern.brembs.net/tag/open-access/> More so for some fields than others: physics, chemistry, and biology are making significant use of pre-publication and open-publication options (e.g.., arXiv, PLOS, PUBMED, BioMED). Medicine apparently less so (closed-access publishers include the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Nature). For social sciences open-access/prepub options include SSRN, RePEc, and EconStore, but much research remains in closed-access journals. Law is almost exclusively closed-access, which is problematic in all manner of ways.