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>> feels like a no-brainer to me

Except it creates incentives that perpetuate the publish or perish model. For example, journals no longer need to worry about if published work is interesting or has an audiance and therefore it becomes easier to publish papers of dubious value.

During your annual review, you need to explain why you only published 1 paper (perhaps in the pay-walled journal of your proffesional society) when your colleague published 3 papers in some Open-Acess journal that nobody reads.



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