Nobel Laureate Makes Convincing Case Against the Scientific Journals - The Wire

Randy Schekman, who earlier today collected his 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine, began his week by taking a broadside shot at publications that made so much of his work famous. Schenkman penned an op-ed in The Guardian on Monday announcing a personal boycott of three leading scientific journals — Nature, Cell, and Science — saying "I have now committed my lab to avoiding luxury journals, and I encourage others to do likewise ... Schekman argues that these journals place a premium on factors not relevant to each article's scientific heft, like how well it will attract readers (and thus, subscription money.) This, according to Scheckman, disincentivizes research in 'unsexy' markets, creating bubbles that distract from more worthy pursuits ..."