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> To market a paper, the author must make a compelling case for why her idea deserves access to that resource. In other words, journals are filled with papers
by liontwist 2y ago
> To market a paper, the author must make a compelling case for why her idea deserves access to that resource.
In other words, journals are filled with papers that were sold the best, not the most important ideas. And as the author also says, superficial things like hard to detect typos are often a deciding factor because the reviewers can detect them.
we should stop pretending there is objectivity and embrace journals that reflect taste and opinion of the editor.
Or have standard places like arxiv for publishing everything. There is no scarce resource for uploading pdfs.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoThe editor is not the one making the call really. Its the reviewers. If they give it few marks or no marks then that’s it, its published. If they dog that paper down then the editor has to sit up in their chair and actually decide whether or not the authors made sufficient change to address the reviewers complaints. But even then its still the reviewers who are demanding the standard, not the editors.
- aeonik 2y agoWhile we're at, improve the citation system, so I the references become hyperlinks, and code artifacts can be accessed.