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The academic publishing system’s most pointless bottleneck - C C - Mar 23, 2026
https://academeblog.org/2026/03/13/the-academic-publishing-systems-most-pointless-bottleneck/
INTRO: Peer-reviewed scholarship remains the central currency of academic life. It advances careers, drives innovation, informs policy, stimulates economies, and lays the groundwork for the next generation of inquiry. Yet the very system designed to vet and disseminate knowledge increasingly drains enthusiasm from scholars—especially early-career investigators—by subjecting them to burdensome, time-consuming, and often pointless article submission portals. The problem is not peer review. It is the bureaucratic machinery that now precedes it... (MORE - details)