I’ve decided to stop submitting manuscripts to scientific journals and start publishing my research here, on my website. The main reason is because I can. For the first two decades of my career, the benefits of publishing in established journals outweighed the costs – that’s no longer true. Doing the work continues to be the most satisfying and the most fun – the deep thrills. All the rest - citations, ‘thumbs up’, H-scores - are the cheap thrills. But I completely understand that this is a luxury that early and mid-career researchers rarely have.
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