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[–] [email protected] 115 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 ... 🙄

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Though errors are somewhat monitored by Retraction Watch.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

find and report scientific errors

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, overall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Depends on what journal is reviewing the paper.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Sounds like you already worked it out.