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Prestige is a made up concept to keep the big players at the top. If the paper is good then it shouldn't matter where it's published.
by rlayton2 8y ago
Prestige is a made up concept to keep the big players at the top. If the paper is good then it shouldn't matter where it's published.
- fwip 8y agoYou've got it backwards though. A paper isn't good because it's in Nature - it's in Nature because it's good.
- rlayton2 8y agoI'm actually more concerned about the negative (your statement is mostly true), i.e. "if it's in a second-tier journal, it doesn't exist". Sure, some just look for an outlet for their crappy research, but the publication outlet shouldn't be used as a shortcut to evaluating quality.