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One problem is measuring what we mean by "paper". I can quite believe this is we include all the fake journals, which feature huge numbers of junk papers. By t
by CJefferson 10y ago
One problem is measuring what we mean by "paper". I can quite believe this is we include all the fake journals, which feature huge numbers of junk papers.
By the same argument, 99% of webpages are never visited by anyone but bots, but that isn't a "crisis of the internet", just a lot of junk.
It would be nice (and I don't know how) to provide a clearer division between junk and real journals -- I now basically ignore all new journals, unless I know someone involved personally (either as editor, or author). That's the only way I can stay sane, but it doesn't seem like a good system.
- veddox 10y agoGood point. Unfortunately, the links in the Smithsonianmag's article are broken and they don't provide much other information to find the original papers that reported this, so I don't know how the authors worked. Would be interesting to see which sample they took. [Edit] I found the original papers (see above), but unfortunately the relevant one is closed-access...