@Ooze@aus.social @soaproot @11011110 As much as I agree, unfortunately many universities and research institutes rely on faulty measures like impact factor (or, alas, number of papers published) as criteria for promotion/progression/contract renewal/... and the majority of people in academia are on temp contracts...
@AnaVinuela @Ooze@aus.social @soaproot @11011110 I think things are slowly changing; I'm extremely lucky that my department is definitely not IF driven, and also values teaching as much as research. I've tried to submit papers to journals with more solid and ethical policies.
The problem is that sometimes you simply don't have a "good journal" to send your paper to. Especially for more specialistic topic, you often get into the "this would be a better fit for a more specialised journal" and that journal might often be Elsevier's or Wiley's or, God forbid, MDPI... now you might be in the privileged position of leaving your paper on a preprint server, and that might work for some, but in most cases you're kind of limited in your options
@nicolaromano @Ooze @soaproot @11011110 my university and school are entiery driven by IF. And funding. And some many grant reviews mention papers and are influenced by who knows you and your work that it feels impossible not to fall into the trap.
I agree preprint servers would be a much better option. I preprint everything, I wish we would just stop there.
@nicolaromano @Ooze @soaproot @11011110 exactly, we can't do the right moral thing if we are out of the job. But we should also put more pressure on changing things.