I see problems with: * you have to be an active promoter
of yourself to get articles read * the review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the
time wasting because
of pedantic
comments) * project - based funding and treating research
like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia
seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number
of publications weighted by the rank
of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high - rank journal, «selected» to be a lead author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..