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• @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-07 12:50

  @neuralreckoning @alexh Effectively in place already, but replacing a bias towards journal renown. If a paper has signed reviews by colleagues I know personally, or if the editor is someone I know personally and is a practising academic whose work I've read and formed an opinion on, that paper acquires a stronger weight. A bias that I prefer one thousand times to the "it's a Nature/Cell/Science paper" kind of bias. It's also an actionable bias: when there's something I find odd about the paper the personal connection facilitates writing to the editor or authors requesting clarification, which is sent and received in good faith. Hence journals that don't do that are fading away from my attention. I'd rather read the raw preprint and evaluate the paper by myself instead. I cannot begin to fathom the thought process of an academic administrator relying on RELX tools for evaluating faculty. Merchants of bullshit. #academia #ScientificPublishing

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