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[-] banana_havoc@lemm.ee 34 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] cassowary@lemm.ee 36 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] banana_havoc@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

I love a self perpetuating system of coerced labor!

[-] Meron35@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

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