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by xp84
704 days ago
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Pardon my ignorance, I’m very much not an academic, but what the heck do the publishers bring to the table here? Suppose you just published your paper on a free site, and solicited your peer reviewers to annotate a Google Doc or whatever? I can see why journals and their publishers mattered 50 years ago when they were needed to physically publish the information by printing it on paper and distributing it. But I don’t get it now. Why does anyone gift them their papers? To me this sounds like a store where the customers bring in all the merchandise and give it to the store, who then sells it back to other customers. In other words, crazy. |
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Name recognition. Top journals are harder to publish into - you (supposedly) need a higher impact piece of work to get published in it.
Same idea with universities. The top ranked universities don't necessarily give you a better education. But that certificate sure helps.
> But I don’t get it now. Why does anyone gift them their papers?
Same answer as above. You're a researcher who is trying to get tenure. You published in Nature. Good chance you'll get tenure. You published on your own site and have a Google Doc of reviewer feedback? Anyone can create that. You won't get tenure.