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Academic publishing functions mainly to sort people for jobs rather than to produce useful knowledge.

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hiring
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hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

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  1. Daniel Lemire Computer science professor who works on fast data processing
    The purpose of the academic output is to sort people out for jobs.

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