One example: "What do all these authors do? Not a lot." The author can't possibly support this assertion, which is - in my 40-yr experience - false. Science is a team sport and sometimes requires big teams.
Another: "The role of academic publishing was once to distribute knowledge from research to the public at large." To the best of my knowledge, this has never been true.
The author seems surprisingly ill-informed about academic life. I won't defend this, but the reason citations have become so important in academia is that hiring committees and administrators - who can't evaluate 'quality' - need a metric, and use that. This produces abuse, of course.
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