'There is no spoon': Imagining Science Without Journals

<p><strong>Episode Summary:</strong></p> <p>In this week&#39;s episode, Open Science advocate and researcher Bj&ouml;rn Brembs talks about his analysis of and radical solutions to the flaws he identifies in the scientific publishing system. Brembs discusses manipulated impact factors,&nbsp;pseudo-competitions, the evolution of the reproducibility crisis, and what we could all do instead!&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Links:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><a href="http://bjoern.brembs.net/">Bj&ouml;rn Brembs Blog</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/brembs">Bj&ouml;rn Brembs Twitter</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/politik/wie-pseudo-wettbewerbe-der-wissenschaft-schaden-1735/">Article on pseudo-competitions in science (in German)</a></p> <p><strong>Quotes:</strong></p> <p>&#39;People strive not to find the next interesting discovery, but to find the next paper&#39;</p> <p>&#39;Our institutions need to realise that the journal system harms science&#39;</p> <p>&#39;The publication services the journal system currently provides, when we do it ourselves would be about 10% of what we are currently paying&#39;</p>