• gi1242@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1141·
    6 months ago

    academic journals now only provide a service to authors. they used to distribute… but the articles are available free on the arxiv, pubmed, authors websites, etc. the peer review and typesetting journals do is a joke and no author will pay for that.

    the value journals have now is mainly to the author, because the prestige of getting accepted by the journal helps with the authors career. publishers figured out that authors will pay for this, so here we are … 🙄

    • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
      421·
      6 months ago

      I used to have trust in the peer review process, thinking this is why it takes months or years for a paper to get published. Are you telling me it’s not real?

      • gi1242@lemmy.worldEnglish
        57·
        6 months ago

        iwriting reviews is time consuming, unpaid, and doesn’t help the reviewers career. so it takes a while because reviewers are already busy and don’t prioritize writing reviews too much.

        quality of the reviews is questionable. 10% of the reviews are through and provide valuable feedback. the remaining 90% are cursory “yeah this is interesting, publish it” or “not interesting/outside scope”.

        very very few reviews find and report scientific errors

        • Final Remix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          25·
          6 months ago

          find and report scientific errors

          Hell, the fact that any articles have been published with the openAI “I can’t provide up-to-date info” means that shit’s not getting read properly, overall.

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    6 months ago

    That expression is hilarious. What’s the name of the template?