On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > The top two journals have a policy of not even sending out half of their > submissions to peer review.
Is it really only half? There are so many science articles written and so many are crap I would have thought it was a lot higher than half; I guess that by now most crackpots have learned not to even bother sending their crap to Nature or Science. > This editorial rejection rate reallmeans that the next big thing will > almost certainly not be published in Science or Nature. You want to bet? I mean it, I'll bet you that there is a 50% chance that at least one of the next Nobel Prizes will be for work first publised in Science or Nature and a 0% chance it was for stuff published in PLoS ONE. Those journals have not changed their policy in decades yet it's in them we first learned why the stars shine, that DNA contains the information in life and told us its shape and how it reproduced, told us about the existence of the neutron which led to nuclear bombs and power, told us about the first animal to be cloned, told us that continents moved, that a huge asteroid crashed into Mexico 66 million years ago, that most of the matter in existence is made of some strange invisible stuff, that neutrinos have mass and oscillate, that the universe is not only expanding but accelerating, that a quantum computer could factor numbers mush faster than a regular computer. All those big things were first published in Science or Nature, why is that going to change now that the world is awash in junk science articles? > > What's somewhat disturbing is that a lot of middle ranked journals are > now doing the same Because crappy articles vastly outnumber even mediocre articles, and there are not enough mediocre outside judges to read all the stuff that is sent to mediocre journals. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
