>Only by understanding why they currently choose to use Springer et al, can you understand what is lost by requiring free publishing. Because we're stuck in a

>Only by understanding why they currently choose to use Springer et al, can you understand what is lost by requiring free publishing. Because we're stuck in a local sub-optima. Those journals are currently prestigious because top researchers publish in them and top researchers publish in them because they are prestigious. A high acceptance bar may play a role but that is easily achievable and generally does not work anyway based on the number of fraudulent papers that have been accepted. Reviewer comments should be published alongside as should the data.