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gi1242@lemmy.world 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.de 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.world 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
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
blurg@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Though errors are somewhat monitored by Retraction Watch.
wewbull@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Sounds like you already worked it out.
pennomi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Depends on what journal is reviewing the paper.