Investing in publication: Researchers as "savage capitalists"

IF 0.2 Q4 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Victor Brun
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Abstract

The article by Kayal et al. (2021) constitutes an important reminder to the scientific community of some ethical shortcomings of today’s academic publishing system for which several solutions are proposed. In this short response, I discuss Latour’s portrayal of scientists as “savage capitalists” to relocate a part of these issues in the practices held by researchers themselves. By depicting scientists as capitalist agents publishing articles as investors awaiting returns in capital, I question the compatibility between the stated goal to transform today’s publishing system and a potential collective inertia rooted in personal and career goals. So-called “individual solutions” with deep collective and institutional roots are therefore calling for social momentum to effectively be activated; this vision could be translated into more specific goals for future research and actions.
投资出版:研究人员是“野蛮资本家”
Kayal等人(2021)的文章对科学界构成了一个重要的提醒,提醒他们当今学术出版系统的一些道德缺陷,并提出了一些解决方案。在这篇简短的回应中,我讨论了拉图尔把科学家描绘成“野蛮的资本家”,以重新定位研究人员自己的实践中这些问题的一部分。通过把科学家描绘成资本家的代理人,把发表文章的人描绘成等待资本回报的投资者,我质疑改变当今出版体系的既定目标与植根于个人和职业目标的潜在集体惰性之间的兼容性。因此,具有深刻集体和体制根源的所谓“个别解决办法”要求有效地调动社会动力;这一愿景可以转化为未来研究和行动的更具体目标。
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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution
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