FD: I can basically agree with you. Incentives like large payments and promotions to prestigious institutes for publication in these journals verses the tough job of actually reading the papers of the scientist and making an assessment based on the content is quite dangerous.
It is ironic when one contrasts this with the life of people like the co-discoverer of calculus. Both Newton and Leibniz developed calculus, largely independently. However, Leibniz developed the very notation for integrals and derivatives that is learned by _every single_ engineering and science major (almost exactly as the original!). Yet only the man’s secretary attended his funeral. The man died alone. So much for all the cheap pomp and charades of academia.
Apparently, genuine value and innovation is rarely attributed correctly, even by experts.
