Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD?
ajdecon: Possible but difficult: good work will speak for itself, but there are a lot of network effects which make it easier to publish from within academia.  A trivial example might be that it's much easier and cheaper to find and read existing publications while at a university, and being familiar with the literature is extremely important to producing publishable work.  Publishing within academia will also make it much easier to find collaborators (extremely important in some fields), find mentors, and learn about the general "style" of the field.  Doing without this support structure would make it extremely difficult to publish even if all journals were double blind... which they are not.You'll occasionally hear a PhD program being compared to an apprenticeship, and there's a lot of truth to that.  Completing a PhD seems to be as much about learning how to orient yourself within scientific culture as it is about research or scholarship.