Wow. #Frontiers fights back with an opinion piece shouting "The fault is in the researchers, leave Frontiers alone!"
And with the piece having no disclaimers of funding and donations, and apparently no editorial revision this opens the possibility of Frontiers paying for propaganda.
Germán Bonilla-Rosso
Although academic incentives are of course responsible for loads of weird and dodgy behaviour, no amount of incentive reform will stop the commercialisation of academic labour by the publishing industry. You can't say the 'junkification' of research is purely a problem of academic incentives.
Concerns about declining research quality have increasingly been framed as "junkification", whereby academic output expands in volume while declini...
