Drinking from the firehose? Write more and Publish Less (Version 2)

"APCs support the surplus revenues of the journals and not the quality of the underlying research that they publish. This latter point was highlighted in the 2022 Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement: "[APCs] don’t pay for improved quality but for the perception of improved quality…Career advancement can depend on that perception. But that is a problem to solve, not an immutable reality to accommodate.” The JIFs were also called out by the statement as erroneously mistaking impact for quality and conflating journal with article impact...."