Editing Robert Maxwell (section)

=== 2022 ===

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|content=Academe. We still haven’t woken up to the destruction of [[Robert Maxwell]], [[Peer Review]], oversight &amp; transparency.

If you still believe that peer review has always been the gold standard in science, you simply didn’t want to look at the history of Permagon Press and its aftermath.
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|content=Please see my current Pinned Tweet.

Peer review isn’t what we think it is. Look at how [[Robert Maxwell|Robert Maxwell’s]] Pergamon Press made his family rich by extorting universities to “complete” their libraries by creating journals that should not exist at prices universities could not afford.
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|content=Am I mad? Not in the slightest. As to why scientists can’t afford to look at the truth, the author correctly put his finger on that issue too: Academic research has what I call a “Hotel California” problem. 

The author may have publicly checked out of legacy journal work. But…
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|content=Academics have to be quite sensitive. Even the bold of academe don’t want to talk about how we quietly switched from editors holding the reins at a few high quality journals, to [[Peer Review|peer review]] mysteriously taking over as the number of lower tier journals exploded.

Crazy talk… ;-)
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|content=Don’t take it from me. Look at the history yourself with these search terms:

[[Peer Review|History of Peer Review in Science]]

Pergamon Press

[[Robert Maxwell]]

Number of academic Journals over time

Cost of Academic journal subscription 

Reviewer compensation 

Tuition over time

Good luck.
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|timestamp=4:53 PM · May 27, 2022
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