Why people dont differentiate between the paid and non-paid publications at the time of promotions?

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Claude Pierre Massé

Today, quickness of promotion is provided by the preprints. Internet allows to distribute them cheaply and widely. But in the main depository, arXiv, there is a blacklist (see http://archivefreedom.org.) Then the factor isn't really richness, but political power.

Ali Daud

I agree with you 100 % Martin Spinrath.