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What is this shit? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Predatory publishing is this shit. It’s a bastardized version of the open access movement that gained traction at the turn of the millennium.

In a nutshell: Instead of having readers pay for an article, publishers take money from researchers to publish the article. Reading it is free for everyone. Publishers are now incentivized to publish as much as possible, with no regard whatsoever for quality. Everyone with two grand on their hands can publish any article.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Can you explain this a bit better?

I've seen many journals with this "open access" option (where the authors pay for open access, rather than the readers paying to read it). But the paid option never skipped the peer review process, as far as I can tell.

I just think the last author of this paper is a big deal in his field and can do whatever

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