Mastodawn

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@JohnBarentine/116296832763875772

Ah. A Nature article that I can actually read. I still don't understand why scientists continue to submit their papers to companies like Nature or Elsevier which hoard vast amounts of research behind expensive pay walls. Can anyone explain?

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ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)6d ago

@galaxy_map Honestly? Because in a lot of cases, they own the journals that are the highest-impact and which most people trust (rightly or wrongly). So publishing in Journal XYZ which has no name recognition _also_ means that people tend to trust the work less, cite it less, etc.

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ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)

@galaxy_map Also, in a lot of cases, the large publishers have largely cornered entire fields (again, in terms of journals people actually _trust_). It shouldn't be this way, but it is right now (and has been for a long time).