Comment on Academic publishing - pfft
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I’m not into Academia. But I’m aware of this issue. But I never understood why anyone will work (review) for free an article that is being used for a company for making money.
It’s literally working for free so other people get paid. Why?
spiffmeister@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.
That’s not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.