It's a lovely idea, but there's no incentive for the journals to participate. They want to publish as many articles as possible, in as friendly an environment as possible. That way lies tenure and lifetime security.
There is a fascinating parallel between this and @robinhanson's recent Challenge Coins proposal. Both are friendly tests of defense mechanisms for adversarial environments (which pretend to be non-adversarial or well-defended, hence do insufficient testing).https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1047507838493499392 …
Five years ago, I suggested systematically Sokaling all peer-reviewed journals. To “Sokal” is, hereby, to attempt to publish clearly bogus papers to illustrate the brokenness of the academic publication process.
https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/307083846556471297 …
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They don't need to participate, that's the good thing about an adversarial environment. You can choose to be the adversary. Sokoling works by submitting through the regular process, proving that process is flawed.
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I predict that, instead, the establishment will circle the wagons around the journals and prepare to call Sokoling unethical and a tool of their political enemies.
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