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 ... 🙄
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?
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
Sounds like you already worked it out.
Depends on what journal is reviewing the paper.
The value of a scientists, how funny this world is
That expression is hilarious. What’s the name of the template?
It's from the movie Monster House
In so many more ways than one... :-(
Why Don't make your own journal with free distribution?
Its bigger than me, or you. This tracks the Open Access movement in academia: http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items
Some people did, look up the Peer Community Journal. Backed up by more and more organisations.
there are plenty of low cost open access journals run by nonprofits and professional societies. however junior researchers when building their reputation try and publish in journals that are as prestigious as possible, without worrying about cost, apc, open access etc.
Kinda sad that this is necessary or seen as necessary
