@GaitiHasan A correspondence by Prof. Gadagkar in 2008: https://t.co/6X5b0y8khZ
@arulscaria Thanks, @arulscaria for bringing this up. We briefly discussed this disparity in our lab meeting yesterday (atm based at a UC - wannabe based in India 😬). Hoping to learn more. Are your thoughts along the lines of this old article by @ragh_gad
For me....Reviewers must be paid!!! Earn for your OA publication - accept to review an OA article only if you are paid for it !!! If a journal has APCs, review it only if you are paid (ARCs - say 20-30% of APC) !! Of course can have serious consequences &a
RT @DeepakNModi: Which is an opinion you have changed (in the academic context)? For me its about publication based performance evaluation…
RT @DeepakNModi: Which is an opinion you have changed (in the academic context)? For me its about publication based performance evaluation…
Which is an opinion you have changed (in the academic context)? For me its about publication based performance evaluation model. I think its flawed and we need a better way of measuring the outputs. The metric of IF citations indexes et al need to be she
Paying to publish is NOT a solution. Not equitable after all.
RT @SumantraSarkar: A great thread.
RT @vishuguttal: Which is an opinion you have changed (in the academic context)? For me its about open access. I still, of course, support…
A great thread.
RT @vishuguttal: Which is an opinion you have changed (in the academic context)? For me its about open access. I still, of course, support…
Which is an opinion you have changed (in the academic context)? For me its about open access. I still, of course, support the principle but the way it's going, it's likely to harm LMIC research. My colleague Gadagkar foresaw this long back. https://t.
Imo, before you produce information you have to first consume them in huge amount. Open access may give some burden to author but it relieves from financial barrier to large community from students to scientist's. https://t.co/RjEB538HK1
Open access journals can be actively harmful for scientists in developing countries, who cannot afford to pay the exorbitant APCs, and must rely on fee waivers by the journal in order to publish. #AcademicChatter https://t.co/r9ZxueKNxI
RT @RickyPo: And yet this feeling about APCs is one that researchers in the Global South have been expressing since at least 2008. As Ragha…
And yet this feeling about APCs is one that researchers in the Global South have been expressing since at least 2008. As Raghavendra Gadagkar expressed it in Nature that year: " "Why should anyone want to survive on charity?" https://t.co/Vy2xIzdLay @peter