finance-citation-cartel

Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel, Hacker News

The state of research is dire at the moment. The whole ecosystem is cooked. Reproducibility is non-existent. This obvious cartel is a symptom and there should be exemplary punishment.

Publishers are commercially incentivized to simply maximize profit and engagement. The main actors are academics and most of them try to uphold the high standards and ethics. Yes there is free-riding, backstabbing and a lot of politics but there is also reputation and honesty.

Paper idea for anyone interested “Reproducibility as metric for success in academic research” - an alternative to citations, peer-review, and other reward schemes that favor quantity over quality