The abuses in academic publishing are well known. It has led to the creation of what is known as Beall's list of predatory academic publishers. We are pursuing the wrong metrics, argue Julius Kravjar and Marek Hladík. "The current system of publishing scholarly papers needs a new paradigm... Perhaps a primary argument could be that science does not produce products so much as create ideas." That sounds great, but in practice it would simply lead to a system of gathering and counting ideas (and thereby, lead to systems of producing and counting fake ideas, much like the patent system). The problem doesn't lie in what's counted, the problem lies in the counting.
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