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The deluge of crappy papers must stop
Ultimately these structural problems with science funding and publishing have arisen from centralized control – a small pool of power-players sculpt the scientific landscape and have created a deeply imbalanced industry from what should be a public good.
Joseph Cook • DeSci: The case for Decentralised Science | Gitcoin Blog
Reviewers have day jobs and other things they are doing as well. Review fatigue is becoming more real as more papers get constantly submitted at a higher ratio than new reviewers enter.
Nikhil Krishnan • Decentralizing Journals and Peer Review DAOs: the evolution of legitimacy in scientific publishing
Only the best researchers in a field actually make progress, and the best researchers are already in a field, and probably couldn’t be kept out of the field with barbed wire and attack dogs. If you expand a field, you will get a bunch of merely competent careerists who treat it as a 9-to-5 job. A field of 5 truly inspired geniuses and 5 competent c... See more