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It does say "before it is published". Presumably you would want to vet a paper with trusted colleagues before releasing it even semi-publicly.

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But once it's published, it's (seemingly) most-often behind a paywall, blocking further access to those who could analyze or benefit from it.

Journal of Cosmology is open access on the internet. Given the field though, I doubt anyone that could really add to these findings is going to be held back by a subscription, I assume it's very hard to get access to these rocks and without the evidence to experiment on your just taking the authors word really.

Very different from say an algorithms paper where anyone can implement and run the code and possibly find improvements.

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