Nobel prize winner accuses scientific journals of ‘tyranny’
December 10, 2013
A Nobel prize winner is boycotting academic journals because he believes they are distorting the scientific process and encouraging researchers to cut corners. Randy Schekman, a US biologist, said top scientific journals represent a “tyranny†as they create an artificial pressure on young scientists who feel they have to be published by one of the three main journals – Nature, Cell and Science. (The Telegraph)
