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Boaz Shaanan wrote:
>
> My impression is that it's the case of "hot" structures NOT being checked
> carefully.

My point was that if it is a very interesting molecule (like this, or
Ras), it is much more likely that more than one structure will be solved
independently, which is what I meant by being double-checked.

> There is of course a case
> for difficult, most interesting and "hot" structures, to be published in
> prestigious journals but they should be checked very carefully, sometimes
> with other (additional) measures than the standard ones. It's for the hot
> journals to work harder on refereeing those articles.


One of the structures was published in JMB.  If publishing in a more sober
journal is correlated with better quality control, why wasn't the error
caught by the JMB referees and editors?


The quality control measures I think should be the same regardless of the
journal.  Presumably < |F+| >  should be greater than < |F-| >, so if
there is an accepted absolute standard template for what statistics to
report on a dataset in "Table I", it might make the referees' job more
tractable.



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