Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
www.theguardian.com
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Add to that journals that will print anything as long as the fees are paid.
Every journal I've submitted to has passed my paper through at least one round of review with three or four reviewers. It's more common than not to need several rounds of review before getting published. I've rejected papers for publishing myself.
Not to say bad stuff can't get through, but a lot of crap science is filtered out of the serious journals by the review process.
I know there are some vetted lists you can search to check if a journal is trustworthy or not, but don't remember what the site was.
Journals I've published in (for reference):
Oh, absolutely. There is still quality science being done. But the increase in volume is aided by trash journals since the bar is so low to publish in them.
Well some journals. Other journals only print if you know the editor and some journals actually follow through on peer review but reviewers are humans as well.
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