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Christine Sutherland's avatar

Thanks James. I endlessly and uselessly fantasise about how to “fix” research. I live in hope that better brains than mine can get the job done, and one day clinical practice might become less polluted by the rot which flows from journals.

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MichaeL Roe's avatar

As an academic ... the current model seems be that a relatively small number of "top tier" journals are regarded as hopefully, maybe, still with functioning review processes, and everything else is presumed to be junk, in the sense that your management will not believe a publication in them is evidence that you are doing your job.

So, at one level, this is not that big a deal .... Wiley buys some journals that everyone was assuming to be junk, and it turned out this default assumption was justified.

Note, by the way, that this makes it even harder to set up a rival to one of the existing academic publishers ... everyone will just assume your new journal is predatory junk.

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