• @banana_havoc@lemm.ee
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    343 months 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
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      373 months ago

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

      • @ulterno
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        63 months ago

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

    • barnaclebutt
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      133 months 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
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        3 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

    • @blackbrook@mander.xyz
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      3 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.

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      53 months ago

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

    • @Meron35@lemmy.world
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      13 months ago

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