This is why I think we need to push for destroying the journals and transforming conferences (to be specifically about networking, not publishing venues). Their purpose really is a fuzzy metric for the academic bureaucrats who are using them as a signal to determine if a paper is good or not rather than relying on their departments, where accountability exists. But of course this is only a small part of the metric hacking and Goodhart's Hell, because we need to say fuck off to the publish or perish shit. I'm in ML and trust me, you don't want to be where we're at. Publishing multiple times a year, chasing hype (because if you don't you get rejected), and overselling papers (you just can't publish groundbreaking work in a few months. Sorry, it ain't gonna be novel but if you don't make it look novel you're gonna get rejected). The treadmill has made me hate academia with a passion (still love research though)
