I’m sorry, you’re wrong. Or, more precisely, your story is incomplete, and you’re wrong to use the word “entirely”. I agree that Elsevier publishes any number of thoroughly dispensable journals such as you describe - but they do publish some top-ranked journals. They purchased Cell Press, which puts out a number of the very best journals, journals that consist entirely of papers worth reading even by people whose own work doesn’t directly connect to the subject of the paper, journals that are important enough to defuse a lot of the boycott threats against Elsevier - because very few principal investigators, and far fewer first authors, are so very secure in their careers that they can afford to pass up a shot at publication in Cell or in Neuron if they have a story that might make it into those pages.
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