[input_sh]

There's plenty of such journals out there (commonly referred to as open access journals).

But popular subscription journals are seen as crown jewels for researchers and readers are unwilling to pay ridiculous amounts of money to read a paper or two, so sci-hub remains extremely popular.

[netizen-9748]

As a scientist, it is of my opinion that this is rather absurd. Research should be viewed as being for the betterment of humanity and furthering our knowledge, not personal prestige

[rusticpenn]

Unfortunately ones career is based on personal prestige in this field.

[vagrantJin]

As a former scientist, the depths of academia I have visited and what I have seen had better not reach the light of day.