In keeping with my longstanding policy of not caring where an article was published, I have on occasion listed MDPI and (much less frequently) Frontiers journal articles here. My criteria for listing articles here are simple: what makes news is the fact that it's new... it reflects a rising trend, it describes a new approach to online learning, it recenters our thinking. I will say, though, that it's hard to keep up with the volume of articles from these sources, and it's easy to be sympathetic with the opinion posted in Nature recently that people should publish fewer papers. But that's not the problem; from where I sit, the real problem is that most academic publications are just authors going through to motions because that's what they're paid for (same with the LinkedIn posts that constantly reiterate the same themes over and over). But as Malgorzata Lagisz writes in a short follow-up, "For individuals to stop publishing and wait for institutions to fix broken incentives and prestige obsession is not the solution. Perhaps we should just let the increasingly dysfunctional publishing system collapse. Maybe then something better can take its place - something community-driven, transparent and not-for-profit." See also: the Discourse is a DDOS Attack via Harold Jarche.
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