RE: One change to make science more open?
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I am happy to belong to a field where all the most important publications are open access (thanks to the SCOAP3 program, supported in particular by CERN). We also have the arxiv which is the platform from which articles are submitted to journals. And the arxiv is free (and even searchable, in particular via Inspire).
Finally, in more and more committees (at least some in which I had a role to play), what matters is indeed the impact, as you noticed. But this impact can be measured by different indicators, the number of citations being one of them but not only. Conferences, seminars, software, etc... there are many ways to quantify the impact and all those ways together should count!
Nice debate in any case! :)