Be weary of "scientific" journals

[Eastoff]

In the end, the paper's fictitious authors got 157 acceptance letters and 98 rejections – a score of 61 percent. "That's way higher than I expected," Bohannan says. "I was expecting 10 or 15 percent, or worst case, a quarter accepted."

For the privilege of being published, the paper's authors were asked to send along a publishing fee of up to $3,100.

 

[crandc]

Do you mean wary?

 

[Denny Crane]

The other half of the story, from the same link:


Bohannan says the exercise is a damning indictment of the way peer review works (or doesn't) at many online journals. Peer review is the time-honored system of having outside experts comb through submissions to identify flaws in method, data or conclusions. It's the way scientific journals do quality control.

"Peer review is in a worse state than anyone guessed," he says.

 

[Eastoff]

Do you mean wary?

=[ thank you

 

[Eastoff]

The other half of the story, from the same link:


Bohannan says the exercise is a damning indictment of the way peer review works (or doesn't) at many online journals. Peer review is the time-honored system of having outside experts comb through submissions to identify flaws in method, data or conclusions. It's the way scientific journals do quality control.

"Peer review is in a worse state than anyone guessed," he says.

I would assume the "peers" either were not actually informed on the subject or did not read the papers

 

[Denny Crane]

I would assume the "peers" either were not actually informed on the subject or did not read the papers

I assume he sent out 300 and that a few were like vanity publishing sites (pay to be published) and most were peer reviewed that just failed to do the job.