Science

...and the rush to quantify ideas in an index. Citation indexes are becoming the only metric of scholarship, and journals are charging more and more. After acceptance, some publishers charge thousands to publish the article.

Open source journals that are refereed (by the same reviewers), but cost little are called "predatory", and it's almost impossible to distinguish who is legitimate.

Editors play a game of journal "ratings" too.

It's extremely easy to get something "published" in the internet world. There is no accurate system that will qualify "ideas" until decades and history find the value of the thinking. Plenty of articles on the pedestal turn out to me fraudulent, and obscure stuff in the corner is recognized as genius decades later.

There is no magic glass to categorized original thinking...but academics and universities seemed to have lost sight of reality.