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Analysis reveals that publishing impacts career advancement and personal well-being, highlighting financial burdens.
The current system of recognition in academia is built on a single pillar; publishing. Career advancement is dependent on how much and where you publish. Assessment of "quality" is based on extremely poor proxies, such as impact factor or journal name. There are a range of costs to this system ranging from financial to personal. Financial The financial costs of publishing are very well documented.
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