He made the worst possible metric about which to measure everything, and created a global system of narcissistic organizations selling their souls to publish to these journals.
In the words of Sydney Brenner (a biologist, it’s in the article): the system is “corrupt”.
He basically turned science, which used to be boring (“Scientific conferences tended to be drab, low-ceilinged affairs”), into a big business (“There are tales of parties on the roof of the Athens Hilton, of gifts of Concorde flights, of scientists being put on a chartered boat tour of the Greek islands to plan their new journal.”).
In the words of Sydney Brenner (a biologist, it’s in the article): the system is “corrupt”.
He basically turned science, which used to be boring (“Scientific conferences tended to be drab, low-ceilinged affairs”), into a big business (“There are tales of parties on the roof of the Athens Hilton, of gifts of Concorde flights, of scientists being put on a chartered boat tour of the Greek islands to plan their new journal.”).