Hacker News with Generative AI: Incentives

Publishers trial paying peer reviewers – what did they find? (nature.com)
Trials suggest that offering payment can increase the chance of a researcher agreeing to review, and in some cases speed up the process.
Publishing, Research, Peer Review, Incentives
31 points by xqcgrek2 28 days ago | 27 comments
Performance Measures and Incentives, Lessons from a Famous Corporate Implosion (coyoteblog.com)
To understand why organizations grow senescent, get fat, and fail – whether they be public or private – there is probably no topic more important than performance measures and incentives.
Business, Incentives, Corporate Culture, Failure, Organizational Growth
10 points by speckx 50 days ago | 0 comments
Mass market non-fiction has bad incentives (borretti.me)
The problem with non-fiction, and the reason most non-fiction books are not worth reading, is the interests of the reader and writer are misaligned.
Non-fiction, Publishing, Writing, Incentives
46 points by bumbledraven 74 days ago | 36 comments
Cash for catching scientific errors: bug bounties for academic publishing (nature.com)
Science, Academic Publishing, Incentives
20 points by anigbrowl 243 days ago | 9 comments