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The ‘publish or perish’ mentality is fuelling research paper retractions – and undermining science (poliversity.it)

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The ‘publish or perish’ mentality is fuelling research paper retractions – and undermining science

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think that “intermediary authorities” and “peer review” are the problem here nor will they completely eliminate disinformation and conspiracy theories on the internet. Getting rid of them does not help at all with those goals though. The big problem with publishers ATM is the closed access and processes that go on.

IMO places like Open Science Journal and PLOS are vastly better and attempting to solve the issues with the current closed and restrictive publishing models.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Perhaps we could benefit from sth like MetaCritic for science.