Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    6 days ago

    When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term enshittification in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives.

    :/

    Feels like we’ve had the term way way longer than that.

    Websearch first results all say November 2022.

    Feels like we’ve had the term way way longer than that.

    I could have swore we were saying it in at least 2014.

    Citation attribution enshitification detected.

  • Neuromancer49@midwest.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Academic publishing was definitely a contributing factor to why I left academic research.

    I also believe we should incentive peer-review. Maybe every researcher should be evaluated on how many articles they peer-review each year, relative to the amount they publish. I knew some researchers who would publish dozens of articles every year, would peer-review zero of them, and then complain about poor quality peer review.