There must be an easier way to work with review/submission websites.
One registers a master password with the publisher that works for all journals. Every time an account is created with a new journal of this publisher, the master password is linked to it and one could start right away @academicchatter#ScientificPublishing
It's on us to stop using them. At some point, we should start considering it a liability to publish on a legacy publisher: as in, the author is found lacking in collegiality. In its present form, it ought to be a negative [1]. To date, it still isn't.
It really is up to funder's grant panels and department's search and promotion committees. And the members of these panels are us.
[1] The only possible future for legacy publishers is to go back to the past, when a lengthy, detailed paper was published in e.g., the Journal of Neurophysiology, and a brief summary was sent to e.g., Nature for broad distribution beyond the immediate field of research.
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