It is becoming nearly impossible to get journals to stamp extensive research. Everything has to be splittable into attention-deficit TikTok-sized bites.

And this paper is actually too short. There’s still much to do.

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Scientific journals act as though they were tabloid magazines. But that is not their function. Their purpose is to evaluate novelty, assess correctness, and place their stamp on the work. Nothing more. Editorial opinions belong elsewhere. Who reads journals?!? Today, scientific publication happens on #arXiv. Discovery happens through search engines, social networks, citations, talks, and personal recommendations.

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Once journals start thinking of themselves as products competing for attention, incentives shift toward short, fashionable, easily marketable papers. Extensive, self-contained works become liabilities rather than assets.

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The academic certification system is broken because it insists on conflating itself with publication and dissemination—roles that it no longer serves. We need to move to structures that embrace living documents that evolve over time and are reviewed, revised, and extended organically through real use—not static PDFs frozen forever after a handful of perfunctory referee reports.

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