Good — and bad! — science appears in many, many places, not just in the top journals. Richard Smith, former editor of the top-rank medical journal BMJ, writes: The world also seems unaware that it is scientifically dangerous to read only the “top journals”. As Neal Young and others have argued, the “top journals” publish […]
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Nature looks at the mystery journals
Further news about the mysterious journals publisher that presents old studies as if they are new. Katharine Sanderson of Nature magazine has looked more deeply into the matter. (For background, see our previous posts — 1, 2, and 3). Sanderson’s report appears online today. It begins: Two new journals copy the old At least two […]
Welcome, Rejecta Mathematica
A new math journal specializes — exclusively — in research papers that have been rejected by other math journals.