yes and no, I think very much like steemit, behaviour is a consequence of incentives. people observe what gets them ahead in life and try to do that to see if it works.
It is difficult to be an idealist if you don't have a job...
But on a macro scale I think that academia is making itself fast irrelevant, they are eroding their own basis for their respectability and in a few years we will hear laments "nobody respects science anymore". I wonder why...