Publishing Without Journals: An Open, Forkable Archive with Attributed Review
arXiv:2607.05454v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The journal is a seventeenth-century technology asked to do four modern jobs at once: disseminate results, certify their quality, allocate scholarly attention, and confer career credit. It does none of them well. Pre-publication peer review is slow, only weakly reliable, demonstrably biased toward established authors and institutions, and expensive, while the reviewing effort it consumes is spent largely on work that will never matter. We
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Published: 21 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Jobs & economy
Retrieved: 21 July 2026
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