alt Hacker NewsThird Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown
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After decades of dealing with Elsevier, Springer-Verlag and the rest; I hope they all go out of business.
The funny thing is, if the guy wasn't quite so greedy with this racket, probably no one would notice. Surely if the number of your publications and citations shoots up exponentially and surpasses those of much more well-known scientists, folks are bound to ask questions. I wonder if this got out of control or whether he really did think it's a good idea to collude his way to such prominence.
Makes sense. Economics isn’t science, it’s numerology that justifies exploiting workers.
It'd be nice to check whether some llms still have "memory" of the paper she has deleted
It will be interesting to see how Goodell's citations drop going forward.
Elsevier has a history of 'promoting' successful millers to more or other journals, so they can 'drive growth', as it's sometimes put in IT, there as well.
https://forbetterscience.com/2023/10/24/elsevier-choses-pape...
This type of corporation is nasty and should not be allowed to exist, but thanks to people like the Maxwell clan, they do. For now.
3 down, thousands to go.
This will continue until Elsevier and their 3 or 4 peers are removed from the academic publishing process entirely.
Is it just me or this makes me feel less guilty for using libgen all these years
I am not arguing against the facts expressed in the piece. This is not an area in which I have any expertise.
However, I am a bit uncomfortable with the pithy language used. It's possible (likely, even), that the fired editors deserve the pithiness, but it's still a bit weird to read that kind of prose, in a scientific context.
Sayre's Law: Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small
Maybe universities, tenure committees, and funding sources should stop measuring academics by vanity metrics such as H-Index and publication counts. And don't get me started on the tendency toward "minimum publishable units."
That said, abusing power as an editor deserves a special place in hell...