From physics prof Philip Moriarity at Symptoms of the Universe:
I’m going to put this as bluntly as I can; it’s been niggling and nagging at me for quite a while and it’s about time I got it off my chest. When it comes to publishing research, I have to come clean: I’m a hypocrite. I spend quite some time railing about the deficiencies in the traditional publishing system, and all the while I’m bolstering that self-same system by my selection of the “appropriate” journals to target.
Despite bemoaning the statistical illiteracy of academia’s reliance on nonsensical metrics like impact factors, and despite regularly venting my spleen during talks at conferences about the too-slow evolution of academic publishing towards a more open and honest system, I nonetheless continue to contribute to the problem. (And I take little comfort in knowing that I’m not alone in this.)
One of those spleen-venting conferences was a fascinating and important event held in Prague back in December,More.
We hear the cultural life in Prague is great.
See also: If peer review is working, why all the retractions?
and
Biologists go rogue; forget journals
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