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bonoboTPtoday at 8:20 PM0 repliesview on HN

Plenty will, but those are not as highly regarded by the community. It's not a problem of journals. It's not hard to start your own journal by teaming up with other academics. In machine learning, ICLR is such a venue for example. The problem is much deeper and more fundamental. You want to publish alongside groundbreaking novel research. Researcher's own ears perk up when they hear about something new. They invite colleagues to talk about their novel discoveries not to describe all their null results and successful replications of known results. Funding agencies want research with novelty and impact. They want to write reports to the higher ups and the politicians and the donors that document the innovations that their funding brought. The media will republish press releases that have cool new results.

To have research happening, you need someone saying "I want to give money to this researcher". There is an endless queue of people lining up who are ready to take this money and do something with it. The person with money (govt or private) has to use some heuristics to pick. One way is to say "I trust this one, I don't care too much what the project is, I'm sure this person will do something that makes sense". But that is dependent on a track record.