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I agree. In my field there are entire journals which I regard as rubbish and which are 95%+ Chinese/East Asian. Part of the problem is integrity, but a larger p

by jmmcd 8y ago

I agree. In my field there are entire journals which I regard as rubbish and which are 95%+ Chinese/East Asian. Part of the problem is integrity, but a larger portion of the bad papers are just meaningless cargo-cult science.

dnautics 8y ago
i mean that's true across the board. A large portion of bad startups are just meaningless cargo culting, etc.
- jmmcd 8y ago
  Not really. There are other journals that I do read.
  - bushin 8y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
- sct202 8y ago
  Also the recent rash of articles documenting low rates of being able to reproduce results of many well cited papers.