This is a side effect of academia never taking open accessibility to papers and journals seriously.
If all these papers were not gatekept by journals, it would be trivially easy to validate at least the existence of cited papers and quotes.
If all these papers were not gatekept by journals, it would be trivially easy to validate at least the existence of cited papers and quotes.
Imagine being an author and paying to publish your novel. Also btw the editor is another author but has to proofread your book for free.
Many academics will publish preprints or their more popular papers on their own websites etc. It's just common sense because to academics they don't get paid a single cent by the publisher (and instead have to pay the publishers instead) and more publicity for them is always better than less.
That is... completely normal.
> Also btw the editor is another author but has to proofread your book for free.
That would be weirder; if you're paying for your own publication, you don't get an editor at all unless you hire them yourself.
Only at vanity presses. Money flows towards the author, as they say.
Peer review means 3 people spend their time to review your work and you don’t have to pay them a cent, so you review others' work for free. The compensation for reviewing is reviews.
They’re not always great (sometimes they’re downright nasty), but I’ve gotten enough high quality reviews over the years that I’m willing to say the time I’ve spent reviewing others’ work has been fairly compensated.
Checking the content is of course a lot more difficult, but that doesn't magically become trivial with open-access journals: you still need to read and interpret what is being said in the paper and compare it to the claims being made in the citation. Granted, these days you could use AI for a first pass, but it's still going to be incredibly tedious work.
From my perspective, it's a clear manifestation of humanity's most pervasive failing - the one that defines every group, eventually.
No One Anywhere Wants To Clean Their Own House.Of course, you do need an API key and it took quite a while to get it last time I needed it, but it's there.
Yeah. It’s trivial to do for one paper while sitting at a computer in a university library. How trivial is it to validate the hundreds of sources and quotes that appear in any given volume of a journal?