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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Reviewers and writers actually do get a stipend, but it's a token amount like 200 bucks a year. This industry is the most ass backward incentive structure we could possibly create, the only reason writers would provide articles to a journal is literally for the clout.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really? I’ve reviewed and published a good chunk of papers and never received any financial compensation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Well, you received a token amount of 0 bucks an eternity.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've never gotten a stipend or heard of someone getting a stipend for publishing or reviewing manuscripts. The only thing I've been offered is access to the journal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Depends on the journal I guess, my wife worked at multiple publishers and there's normally an insultingly small stipend for the editorial board members and writers

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

That's not an incentive, they're mocking you with money

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They all got bought up by venture capitalists like a decade or more more ago, and this is the result.

They were already backward, but now they are backward, ruthless about cost cutting, and care about nothing but profits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Clout and also many academic focused universities expect some set minimum of publications from their staff

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Publishing and winning grants are the lifeblood of most academic careers

To fund your research, you have to win grants - and to win grants, you have to have a proven history of publishing research and winning grants! Bonus points if you provide unpaid labor for granting and publishing agencies by reviewing applications and submissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I love a self perpetuating system of coerced labor!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I've heard of some journals promising to pay their reviewers Amazon gift cards which they never end up sending out