The acceptance bias toward the traditional axis of scholarly literature confirms what publishers experience day-to-day: there are greater challenges to reviewing and making decisions on this sharp influx of content from new countries, with diverse cultures and attitudes to publishing, non-English languages (the lingua franca of academic publication in most subject areas), and a lack of publishing history. It has been widely reported that being published often is heavily incentivized (‘publish or perish’), generally via the assessment of academic performance and the tenure review process or more occasionally in the form of monetary payment. 4 If this drive were combined.
