the top universities are top universities because of what? the standard metric is number of published papers. So a university to on the top have to play by tho

the top universities are top universities because of what? the standard metric is number of published papers. So a university to on the top have to play by those rules. and we keeping regarding them as the top are by consequence valuing those rules. the hypocrisy has to end somewhere. We can't keep up voting those articles that point the problems with academic publishing while giving priority to hire from the institutions that maintain that status quo.