NewHopeR
Senior Member
- Joined
- Nov 6, 2009
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- China
- Current Location
- China
Context:
Happily, there are signs of movement in this direction: forexample, The WellcomeTrust says “it is the intrinsic merit of the work, and not the title of thejournal in which an author’s work is published, that should be considered inmaking funding decisions.” We need more funding and hiring bodies to make suchdeclarations. Only then will researchers will be free of the need (real or apparent) to prop up parasitic publishers by sending their best work tobig-name, barrier-based journals.
Happily, there are signs of movement in this direction: forexample, The WellcomeTrust says “it is the intrinsic merit of the work, and not the title of thejournal in which an author’s work is published, that should be considered inmaking funding decisions.” We need more funding and hiring bodies to make suchdeclarations. Only then will researchers will be free of the need (real or apparent) to prop up parasitic publishers by sending their best work tobig-name, barrier-based journals.