Haven&#x27;t we solved the quality issue in other situations by giving users the ability to rate a scientific paper.<p>What&#x27;s wrong with giving other researchers the ability to rate and comment on a paper.<p>It&#x27;s a not a perfect filter but I would argue it works just as well a this journal reputation system and it prevents issues like people having to publish with them to get recognized not to mention it encourages discussion between academics which could lead to some breakthroughs as well.<p>You want peer recognition so why not go to your peers directly instead of a proxy like these publications.<p>This system is a product of a bygone era and as all other systems like it it is resisting change by relying on copyright.<p>I see copyright as the root of most of our current societies issues it is just not compatible with how we work not to mention most of these papers were made with public funding so there shouldn’t be any copyright on it to begin with the copyright belongs to the public domain they payed for it.<p>A publication just publishing it on their website and slapping a price on it is pure theft and they should be treated like the pirates they are pursuing.