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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

He made the worst possible metric about which to measure everything, and created a global system of narcissistic organizations selling their souls to publish to these journals.

In the words of Sydney Brenner (a biologist, it's in the article): the system is “corrupt”.

He basically turned science, which used to be boring ("Scientific conferences tended to be drab, low-ceilinged affairs"), into a big business ("There are tales of parties on the roof of the Athens Hilton, of gifts of Concorde flights, of scientists being put on a chartered boat tour of the Greek islands to plan their new journal.").

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