alt Hacker NewsIf publishing the most papers is the goal why do we even need journals? We have blogs and preprint servers if Volume is your goal.
Journals should absolutely play a role in maintaining quality and curating what they publish.
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epigramx • last Friday at 5:45 AM
Peer review success is not the rule of the owner of a company but the acceptance you get from peers.
> If publishing the most papers is the goal why do we even need journals?
For discoverability. Someone's trivial finding may be someone else's key to a major breakthrough, but little good it does if it can't be easily found