“El último ingreso de un académico en la institución data del año 2004 y de sus 40 plazas numerarias en la actualidad solo están cubiertas la mitad. Y tampoco hay ninguna mujer.”

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Leading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a “tyranny” that must be broken […]

Schekman said pressure to publish in “luxury” journals encouraged researchers to cut corners and pursue trendy fields of science instead of doing more important work. […]

A journal’s impact factor is a measure of how often its papers are cited, and is used as a proxy for quality. But Schekman said it was “toxic influence” on science that “introduced a distortion”. He writes: “A paper can become highly cited because it is good science – or because it is eye-catching, provocative, or wrong.”

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