Is “By Scientists” Bad?

Is “By Scientists” Bad?

The recent track record isn’t stellar when it comes to the lefthand section of the tired old slogan, “By scientists, for scientists.” This bit of rhetoric has been used repeatedly and for well over a decade as a cudgel against professional business management of scholarly and scientific journals. It continues to be used today — in the titles of presentations, on publishing web sites, and on commercial web sites. It’s implicit criticism is that “…