This is a dominant characteristic, where career advancement, promotion, and tenure are heavily dependent on research output and publication metrics. This pressure can lead to stress and, in some cases, questionable research practices or a focus on quantity over quality.
<p><span>The publishing environment is entails a formal process designed to ensure quality research and integrity with regard to authenticity.</span></p><p><span><span>Publishing is a significant commercial industry, with major publishers operating in a competitive landscapes. There is ongoing friction between the traditional, controlled access models and the open access movement, which intends to make research freely available, often through author-paid article processing.</span></span></p><p><span><span>Especially based on the workshop that i attended i realised that authors seek financial compensation based on the time spent and hard work they put in creation of research papers</span></span></p><p><span></span></p>
Research and publishing can at times feel like a blackbox. From a researcher's perspctive, there is little training or mentorship on the "how" especically for those in less-resourced institutions of learning. Often times one is daunted by requirements of research and publishing. With little knowledge on the proces, for researchers, getting published can feel like a lottery - if you are lucky you may get published. Demands "to be analytical and not descriptive, apply rigour, be scholarly" can overwhelm scholars. Working as a collective makes it easier for scholars to ease into publishing, it also offers alternatives to closed publishng spaces.