• banana_havoc@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Reviewers and writers actually do get a stipend, but it's a token amount like 200 bucks a year. This industry is the most ass backward incentive structure we could possibly create, the only reason writers would provide articles to a journal is literally for the clout.

    • cassowary@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Really? I’ve reviewed and published a good chunk of papers and never received any financial compensation.

    • blackbrook@mander.xyz
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      3 months ago

      They all got bought up by venture capitalists like a decade or more more ago, and this is the result.

      They were already backward, but now they are backward, ruthless about cost cutting, and care about nothing but profits.

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      Clout and also many academic focused universities expect some set minimum of publications from their staff