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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reputation comes from public, it requires collective action and coordination. Collective action is not easy, but it is not as hard it might seem either. For example, many open source projects in software are highly reputable without a private ownership.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That is true, but software is a much newer field overall than academia -- journals like Nature are over 100 years old, and the way prestige of journals works in academia and publishing hasn't changed significantly since the 50s. Academic publishing has a lot more momentum to change than tech, and academics have very little power to do so on an institutional level, it kinda has to come from administrators, who don't understand the problem or care.